After some testing I found that following still requires attention: Parted with the ext_range patch can create devices in /dev/ for more than 16 partitions, but does not remove them after the partitions are deleted, even the patch bellow is applied.
Br, -Mikko Kortelainen On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 15:29, kordex <[email protected]> wrote: > Following should be merged I think: > > On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 09:41, Petr Uzel <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 06:39:01PM +0200, [email protected] wrote: >>> Hello, >> >> Hi, >> >>> >>> Your patch bellow seems to do the trick: over 16 GPT defined >>> partitions are now visible under /dev and /proc/partitions >> >> Thanks for testing. >> >> If you could send short writeup about the problem and testing this >> patch to parted-devel mailing list, that would be highly appreciated. >> >> Regards, >> >> Petr >> >>> >>> > diff --git a/libparted/arch/linux.c b/libparted/arch/linux.c >>> > index bc42750..5eb1471 100644 >>> > --- a/libparted/arch/linux.c >>> > +++ b/libparted/arch/linux.c >>> > @@ -2416,7 +2416,7 @@ _blkpg_remove_partition (PedDisk* disk, int n) >>> > >>> > /* >>> > * The number of partitions that a device can have depends on the >>> kernel. >>> > - * If we don't find this value in /sys/block/DEV/range, we will >>> use our own >>> > + * If we don't find this value in /sys/block/DEV/ext_range, we >>> will use our own >>> > * value. >>> > */ >>> > static unsigned int >>> > @@ -2427,7 +2427,7 @@ _device_get_partition_range(PedDevice* dev) >>> > FILE* fp; >>> > bool ok; >>> > >>> > - r = snprintf(path, sizeof(path), "/sys/block/%s/range", >>> > + r = snprintf(path, sizeof(path), "/sys/block/%s/ext_range", >>> > last_component(dev->path)); >>> > if (r < 0 || r >= sizeof(path)) >>> > return MAX_NUM_PARTS; >> >> Petr >> >> -- >> Petr Uzel >> IRC: ptr_uzl @ freenode >> >
