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| author | Phillip Susi <psusi@ubuntu.com> | 2014-04-27 11:15:47 -0400 |
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| committer | Phillip Susi <psusi@ubuntu.com> | 2014-05-22 19:56:36 -0400 |
| commit | 7feb3b452c5ae57e75e16f8c00f46c9aa564a4cc (patch) | |
| tree | a6d4d1a1d960c537cddc1b3b9cdf653fcd1e2098 | |
| parent | 32d637298717446a4edd3c8fbe637462fab4c000 (diff) | |
| download | parted-7feb3b452c5ae57e75e16f8c00f46c9aa564a4cc.tar.gz | |
libparted: don't create partition on loop label
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.
| -rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | libparted/arch/linux.c | 3 |
2 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
@@ -29,6 +29,10 @@ GNU parted NEWS -*- outline -*- ** Bug Fixes + 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. + libparted: fix loop labels to not vanish if you don't create a filesystem, and to not return an error syncing when you do. diff --git a/libparted/arch/linux.c b/libparted/arch/linux.c index 4cbe49b..9ae6d64 100644 --- a/libparted/arch/linux.c +++ b/libparted/arch/linux.c @@ -2883,6 +2883,9 @@ _disk_sync_part_table (PedDisk* disk) lpn = PED_MIN(lpn, part_range); else lpn = part_range; + /* don't actually add partitions for loop */ + if (strcmp (disk->type->name, "loop") == 0) + lpn = 0; for (i = 1; i <= lpn; i++) { PedPartition *part = ped_disk_get_partition (disk, i); if (!part) |