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Re: [PATCH] better block device detection for linux 2.6
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Andres Salomon |
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Re: [PATCH] better block device detection for linux 2.6 |
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Fri, 18 Nov 2005 14:20:55 -0500 |
On Wed, 2005-11-16 at 23:50 -0500, Andres Salomon wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The root problem of my prior patch was due to the sketchy probing of
> partitions in linux, using /proc/partitions and attempting to understand
> the names. Linux 2.6 now includes /sys/block, which contains all block
> devices on the system (and their partitions underneath that). The
> attached patch makes parted attempt to probe devices via /sys/block, and
> fall back to /proc/partitions if /sys isn't mounted.
>
FYI, I updated the patch:
http://mouth.voxel.net/~dilinger/parted2.patch