[parted-devel] [patch] Use 'p' partition separator only when necessary

[Brian C. Lane]

On Sat, Mar 05, 2011 at 12:30:06AM -0500, Phillip Susi wrote:
> 

> Device mapper type should not automatically mean add 'p'
> before the partition number.  Fall back to adding it only
> if the previous character is a digit.  This compilies
> with kpartx behavior.

This will make it more difficult for tools to parse the name to get the
partition number. Having p%d always present is much easier to handle
than %d or p%d

It seems to me that kpartx should change its behavior to always add the
p.

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Brian C. Lane | Anaconda Team | IRC: bcl #anaconda | Port Orchard, WA (PST8PDT)
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