On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 06:12:05PM +0200, Soren Hansen wrote: > I used to use parted 1.7.7 as this was what was shipped by Ubuntu and > Debian up until very recently. I used parted to add a partition table to > disk images that I'd be using for virtual machines. > When parted was updated to 1.8.8, this stopped working, since parted > fails if telling the kernel to reread the partition table for the device > in question fails. However, for disk images this makes little sense.
Hmm. Isn't the real bug here that it's trying to reread the partition table on a disk image? How come disk->dev->type isn't PED_DEVICE_FILE here? -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ parted-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/parted-devel

