Re: [PATCH] try to reread partition table in 10_linux

[Robert Millan]

On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 11:33:51PM +0100, Felix Zielcke wrote:
> +if which sfdisk /dev/null ; then
> +  GRUB_DEVICE_DISK=`echo ${GRUB_DEVICE} | sed -e "s/[0-9]*$//"`
> +  sfdisk -R ${GRUB_DEVICE_DISK} 2>/dev/null
> +fi

s/[0-9]*$// doesn't catch all partition path layouts.  More heuristic
is needed for that (we have this in util/hostdisk.c), but duplicating it
doesn't sound like a good idea.

Can this be avoided altogether?  E.g. by telling Linux the partition path
instead, or by using another interface.

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