mr-parted2fdisk should use parted when there's a lot of disks

[victor gattegno]

When there's a lot of disks, some fdisk fail to list it all, and then, may not list the boot device.

In that case, boot device will not be found by mr-parted2fdisk because it's using fdisk (and parted only in some issues).

So the solution in this case (a lot of disks to scan) is to use parted instead of fdisk in mr-parted2fdisk.

[victor gattegno]

A solution in mr-parted2fdisk program could be to check if boot partition is listed in the result of 'fdisk -l', and, if not, to check it through parted.

That would workaround any fdisk bug (example : ​https://access.redhat.com/solutions/783403 bug, fixed in util-linux-ng-2.17.2-12.24).

[Bruno Cornec]

Should be fixed with rev [3647]

Victor could you check by just using that version of mr-parted2fdisk with th existing mindi setup (replacing it should be all you need to do) and report back.

Thanks !

[Bruno Cornec]

Closing for now. Please reopen if needed.

[victor gattegno]

mr-parted2fdisk [rev 3647 http://trac.mondorescue.org/changeset/3647] was tested on a lot of disks with the "1000" limit, and also with the limit set to "30" :

$use_parted = 1 if ($lines >= 30)

But it still doesn't detect the boot partition.

I emailed to Bruno the result.

[Bruno Cornec]

This should be finally much improved with rev [3666]. Please check again and report back your findings !