On 11-03-29 01:33 PM, Jim Meyering wrote:
Phillip Susi wrote:
After speaking with the gparted maintainer, he has provided a configure
switch to disable the gparted dmraid handling code and leave it up to
libparted, which solves the duplicate device problem. During that
discussion I also learned that the kpartx tool which some distributions
use to create the partition devices instead of dmraid only adds the 'p'
if the previous character is a digit. Further discussion on mailing
lists indicated that this is the correct behavior that Linux has used
"since the dawn of time".
Can you give a reference to that discussion?
I believe the reference to the discussion is the following thread:
[parted-devel] What is the deal with the partition separator?
http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/parted-devel/2011-February/003809.html
The discussion originated due to the following Ubuntu bug report for
GParted:
[Natty] Gparted duplicates dmraid partition devices
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gparted/+bug/719129
Regards,
Curtis Gedak
(Maintainer of GParted)
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