[parted-devel] [BUG] failing ioctl when informing the kernel about new partitions

[Petr Uzel]

Hi list!

I was investigating some openSUSE bug reports where parted failed with
the following:

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Error: Error informing the kernel about modifications to partition
/dev/hda5 -- Device or resource busy.  This means Linux won't know
about any changes you made to /dev/hda5 until you reboot -- so you
shouldn't mount it or use it in any way before rebooting." 
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The problem is described in
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=441244
with detailed instructions how to reproduce it and a patch.

I can confirm that the patch fixes the problem for me, but it
did not get it to parted. As Bryn wrote in comment #2, it needs some
discussion because of the possible interference with bootloaders (I'm
going to test what might happen with grub/lilo installed to extended
partition in this case).



-- 
Best regards / s pozdravem

Petr Uzel, Packages maintainer
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