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-rw-r--r--perl-install/install/NEWS1
-rw-r--r--perl-install/partition_table/gpt.pm5
2 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/perl-install/install/NEWS b/perl-install/install/NEWS
index a73a53efc..d7195097b 100644
--- a/perl-install/install/NEWS
+++ b/perl-install/install/NEWS
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
- default to GPT on disks larger than 4TB, not LVM
- fix GPT initialization on empty disk
+- fix failure to delete partitions after switching to GPT
Version 16.51 - 3 February 2015
diff --git a/perl-install/partition_table/gpt.pm b/perl-install/partition_table/gpt.pm
index 021bdc6bd..3d4206f68 100644
--- a/perl-install/partition_table/gpt.pm
+++ b/perl-install/partition_table/gpt.pm
@@ -132,9 +132,12 @@ sub read_one {
sub write {
my ($hd, $_sector, $_pt, $_info) = @_;
+ my $partitions_killed;
+
# Initialize the disk if current partition table is not gpt
if (c::get_disk_type($hd->{file}) ne "gpt") {
c::set_disk_type($hd->{file}, "gpt");
+ $partitions_killed = 1;
}
foreach (@{$hd->{will_tell_kernel}}) {
@@ -143,7 +146,7 @@ sub write {
print "($action, $part_number, $o_start, $o_size)\n";
if ($action eq 'add') {
c::disk_add_partition($hd->{file}, $o_start, $o_size, $part->{fs_type}) or die "failed to add partition";
- } elsif ($action eq 'del') {
+ } elsif ($action eq 'del' and !$partitions_killed) {
c::disk_del_partition($hd->{file}, $part_number) or die "failed to del partition";
}
}