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On Mar 25, 2009, at 2:57 PM, Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote:

> Here=B4s a script to reproduce this on head.

First of all: exemplary problem reporting!

> Any ideas?

The probe method of the GPT scheme explicitly disallows nesting.
This is inconsistent with the create method, which happily allows
creating a GPT underneath a MBR.

The bug is in the create method: GPT cannot be created inside a
MBR slice (or any other partioning for that matter). I'll fix
that shortly.

FYI,

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Marcel Moolenaar
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