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| -rw-r--r-- | gnu/installer/parted.scm | 10 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/gnu/installer/parted.scm b/gnu/installer/parted.scm index c8bb73ee64..e33ef5f8fd 100644 --- a/gnu/installer/parted.scm +++ b/gnu/installer/parted.scm @@ -635,8 +635,14 @@ determined by MAX-LENGTH-COLUMN procedure." (define (mklabel device type-name) "Create a partition table on DEVICE. TYPE-NAME is the type of the partition table, \"msdos\" or \"gpt\"." - (let ((type (disk-type-get type-name))) - (disk-new-fresh device type))) + (let* ((type (disk-type-get type-name)) + (disk (disk-new-fresh device type))) + (or disk + (raise + (condition + (&error) + (&message (message (format #f "Cannot create partition table of type +~a on device ~a." type-name (device-path device))))))))) ;; |