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| author | Phillip Susi <psusi@ubuntu.com> | 2014-04-26 19:17:37 -0400 |
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| committer | Phillip Susi <psusi@ubuntu.com> | 2014-05-22 19:56:36 -0400 |
| commit | ec0b631c43ced29a05557d911bbf57110d0b7ae3 (patch) | |
| tree | 0fb2993050d5d8121fc4d6f8a10e5918d879b675 | |
| parent | 7feb3b452c5ae57e75e16f8c00f46c9aa564a4cc (diff) | |
| download | parted-ec0b631c43ced29a05557d911bbf57110d0b7ae3.tar.gz | |
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.
| -rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | partprobe/partprobe.c | 4 |
2 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
@@ -29,6 +29,9 @@ GNU parted NEWS -*- outline -*- ** Bug Fixes + 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"); |