On Wed, Aug 06, 2008 at 12:47:55PM +0100, Colin Watson 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?
Oh, err... I didn't realise parted was even aware of the difference. In fact, this very bug suggested that it wasa mere luck that it ever worked :). Well, in that case checking for PED_DEVICE_FILE would certainly be right approach. I'll adjust the patch accordingly. Thanks! -- Soren Hansen | Virtualisation specialist | Ubuntu Server Team Canonical Ltd. | http://www.ubuntu.com/
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