-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 2/20/2015 3:55 AM, Mike Fleetwood wrote: > With a whole disk ext4 file system, deleting the virtual partition > is effectively a no-operation as the ext4 file system remains > intact and is still detected on the whole disk device. > > It appears that deletion of the virtual loop partition is trying to > be as close as possible a no-operation, yet still leave the device > detected with a loop partition table. So either: 1) the device > contains the loop signature or 2) contains a libparted recognised > file system signature. In both cases it will still be recognised > as containing a
Right... so the problem is that parted does not recognize xfs. Simply adding an xfs recognizer will fix this, and is something we should do anyhow. > loop partition table when re-read. If something else erases the > signature in the mean time then that is something else's > responsibility and a new loop partition table can be re-created. > Therefore I think deletion of the virtual loop partition table > should truly be a no-operation. Then the delete operation itself would be wiped out after a re-read and the virtual partition would pop back into existence. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (MingW32) iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJU51ErAAoJENRVrw2cjl5RjPkH/0DTyAMXbtsU8Ti3NHAdKmIj E4A+KB0xVP79iNxPjqIGm+xjbnZeGjveawT5YYePo4YUHVRFd3L+ZKz9z/+xhKdD w5gWu9U2N4t0B6GKJB5ptOyiqc+n4Teh0D+ndNTOHcaiViIhQYSa9rqXCvVQg6dI +/48uIwsZjbig3Rl0+M2H58lObTLsHLWefMPc3C3nsMyIgmX2iDaG3TvPcBlnB0i Q+hm6s1Y4h9buDrGz3hqblzSPPo1eVux6BG5bxVv2WL/dfwVb3o3PH8pPDwnwSSG DDCzfeJjPvQcYDC0tfCBfXaYWEnBLr/ZFO8Cayohhy48otjrHqhP3keqaDLa7Kg= =fdmX -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
