From 7127a356f205af5ca97370fe6b3674f55c5ec700 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Phillip Susi Date: Fri, 2 May 2014 21:50:48 -0400 Subject: [PATCH 205/208] partprobe: do not skip loop labels Partprobe was not syncing loop labels. This resulted it failing to remove existing partitions when switching to a loop label. --- NEWS | 3 +++ partprobe/partprobe.c | 4 +--- 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 77cffea..d79292f 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -25,6 +25,9 @@ GNU parted NEWS -*- outline -*- Fix filesystem detection on non 512 byte sector sizes + partprobe: when called on a disk that has become a loop label, + remove any partitions left over from a previous label. + libparted: The loop label represents an unpartitioned disk, but creates a dummy partition to represent the whole disk. This dummy partition was actually being loaded into the kernel. Don't do that. diff --git a/partprobe/partprobe.c b/partprobe/partprobe.c index 4da4fb7..8b744b5 100644 --- a/partprobe/partprobe.c +++ b/partprobe/partprobe.c @@ -106,9 +106,7 @@ process_dev (PedDevice* dev) PedDisk* disk; disk_type = ped_disk_probe (dev); - if (disk_type && !strcmp (disk_type->name, "loop")) - return 1; - else if (!disk_type) { + if (!disk_type) { /* Partition table not found, so create dummy, empty one */ disk_type = ped_disk_type_get("msdos"); -- 1.9.0