It seems that Hans de Goede ( CCing ) removed support for the BLKPG ioctls instead of BLKRRPART on 2009-08-28 according to the ChangeLog. This prevents using parted to manipulate partitions on disks where other partitions are in use on Linux, which worked in parted 1.8. Related bugs are:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/parted/+bug/540940 http://parted.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/trac.cgi/ticket/253 Why was this support removed, and is it possible to have it put back? _______________________________________________ parted-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/parted-devel
