Curtis Gedak wrote: > Curtis Gedak wrote: >> Jim Meyering wrote: >>> $ sudo ./parted -s $dev u B mkpart F13-root $s2 $e2 >>> Warning: WARNING: the kernel failed to re-read the partition >>> table on >>> /dev/sda (Device or resource busy). As a result, it may not >>> reflect all >>> of your changes until after reboot. >>> >> >> I have been able to confirm the above error using the latest parted >> from the git repository (April 24, 2010). My testing used the >> Ubuntu 10.04 Beta2 distribution, a GPT partition table, and an >> existing partition already mounted. When I try to create a new >> partition I receive the warning message. >> >> Next I took a plain vanilla copy of parted-2.2 and applied only the >> two patches from this mailing list item: >> http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/parted-devel/2010-April/003552.html >> >> >> My testing with plain vanilla parted-2.2 plus the two patches worked >> 100% without any warning being displayed. >> >> This leads me to believe that there is some other change in the git >> repository since parted-2.2 was released that is causing the warning >> message to be displayed. > > I have looked through the patches since parted-2.2 was released. The > patch that causes the warning message to be displayed is: > libparted: _disk_sync_part_table: always return 0 upon failure > http://git.debian.org/?p=parted/parted.git;a=commit;h=81ed7fc413375a8b8ed5bd792e7385dacaf8a3e1
Thanks for investigating. I've written a test to exercise this and will address it shortly. _______________________________________________ bug-parted mailing list bug-parted@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-parted
