-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 2/20/2015 11:19 AM, Brian C. Lane wrote: > What do you expect to happen though? You've explicitly told parted > to remove the 'partition' and that's what's happened. The fact that > ext4 survives is more of an accident than anything else. I also > don't really see the utility of trying to use parted like this -- > just make a real disk label and use that.
I was trying to preserve as much of the existing behavior as I could when I made those changes. That meant allowing you to do the following things: 1) Create a loop label with an empty partition 2) Create a loop label with no partition 3) Create a loop label with an empty partition, and then format a filesystem there, and still have the disk show up as a loop label with one partition containing that filesystem. You asked what do you expect to happen, and what I actually expect to when you delete the partition is for the filesystem to be deleted, so the behavior your are seeing now with xfs is already correct. That isn't how parted used to work though, so I tried to preserve the ability to delete the partition without deleting the filesystem and that does work... as long as the fs doesn't use sector zero. In other words, for those filesystems that use sector zero, don't delete the partition. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (MingW32) iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJU56bjAAoJENRVrw2cjl5RA3EH/iV+43ah5ZhRpe2Tx1y+1TJA o8sXYJ/dXwa05e3aFhQwXwER7tncearNLpNnRiUMXATDxY9RUBsO6TeSZK8UCflz TElnlsol+prV+ewtmmQsdGxH4oFLdx0M7/KUdr1DUk7sJ78hW/nzr8qUkQnJZIOJ FIMHYwYjGmCOueLSlazUAoaKgdZrdwTfH04Lka4oBUzpjqELYaC4FVBYUy0VE6B+ OlTpepgxP1FC5fKAHvC5QOtDnVkb4SO6gdHQlOAnmsQfVMcO26F05VLuXoTW6UXb Tog4E4kEQMZIbhn6wJWoFRPgHebY1AqDENCuoff37BsOW5aJ35mx5R7ciz23w+o= =dTWL -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
