On Wed, 2005-11-16 at 23:50 -0500, Andres Salomon wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> The root problem of my prior patch was due to the sketchy probing of
> partitions in linux, using /proc/partitions and attempting to understand
> the names.  Linux 2.6 now includes /sys/block, which contains all block
> devices on the system (and their partitions underneath that).  The
> attached patch makes parted attempt to probe devices via /sys/block, and
> fall back to /proc/partitions if /sys isn't mounted.
> 

FYI, I updated the patch:

http://mouth.voxel.net/~dilinger/parted2.patch



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