On Saturday 30 March 2013 01:52 AM, Stefan Monnier wrote: > The problem that needs fixing is that "kpartx -l /dev/loop0" says > /dev/loop0p1 even though it ends not using this name.
It doesn't report so on my box. rrs@zan:~$ sudo kpartx -l /dev/sda [sudo] password for rrs: sda1 : 0 97656250 /dev/sda 2048 sda2 : 0 152411382 /dev/sda 97658298 rrs@zan:~$ sudo kpartx -l /dev/loop0 loop0p1 : 0 4091904 /dev/loop0 2048 > I suggested to fix it by adding a /dev/loop0p1 symlink, Why? That part is anyways taken care by partx. I am not sure how partx is consumed, but if you run it manually, it will create the proper mappings for you. > but if you > prefer to fix it by changing the output of "kpartx -l", that's fine by > me, all that matters is that "kpartx -l" should return one of the file > names that will end up being used. But only for device mapper. DESCRIPTION This tool, derived from util-linux' partx, reads partition tables on specified device and create device maps over par‐ titions segments detected. It is called from hotplug upon device maps creation and deletion. If you still see a bug in it, please let me know. -- Ritesh Raj Sarraf RESEARCHUT - http://www.researchut.com "Necessity is the mother of invention."
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