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Re: sysinst extended partitioning won't set/do the "newfs" flag!

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Subject: Re: sysinst extended partitioning won't set/do the "newfs" flag!
From: Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>
Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2020 06:32:35 +0200

On Mon, Jun 08, 2020 at 04:42:42PM -0700, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> What magic am I missing, or is this a bug?

A bug, probably related to not using MBR on xen devices (but most other x86
code expecting disklabel inside MBR). It worked (last I tested) in the
default partition editor, not sure what goes wrong here.

I'll try to reproduce it locally.

Martin

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