Hello list. So this issue sprouts from an issue mentioned by Petr Uzel a while back. As I understood it, it had to do with parted failing when reading partition 17 and there was a patch changing PED_MAX to PED_MIN. After this there were other patches that made parted missbehave.
Specifically parted was not correctly removing the partition file (/dev/sdaNUMBER) when removing the last partition. This patch helps to address that. What is happening is that _disk_sync_part_table is removing all partitions and then adding the ones that it has in the PedDisk. For this logic to work we need to try to remove the maximum ammount of parts. And the maximum supported partitions is the minumum between the number supported by the kernel (/sys/block/sda/range) and the maximum suported by the label. I hardcoded the label maximums. If there is another way, pls advise. I still have not seen the possibility to create a test for this, will look into it shortly. A review is greatly appreciated. Note that this is not the final patch and the comments will be changed. Regards. Joel Andres Granados Brno, Czech Republic, Red Hat. _______________________________________________ parted-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/parted-devel
