On 3/18/2010 11:45 AM, Hans de Goede wrote: > Hi, Hello ;)
> It was removed because it lacked proper error checking, The 1.8 code was > ignoring BLKRRPART errors (such as for example those hrown by busy > partitions), which allowed one to modify partitions which are not in use. > > But this meant that no proper error checking was done, so if the user > did not exactly know what he was doing he parted would say all was fine, > while in reality the kernels view of the partitions did not match the > new layout. Since this is dangerous and error prone the use of > BLKRRPART was removed. Why not add error checking then instead of throwing it out altogether? Seems like curing the disease by killing the patient. _______________________________________________ parted-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/parted-devel
