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

[Curtis Gedak]

On 11-03-29 01:33 PM, Jim Meyering wrote:
> Phillip Susi wrote:
>> After speaking with the gparted maintainer, he has provided a configure
>> switch to disable the gparted dmraid handling code and leave it up to
>> libparted, which solves the duplicate device problem.  During that
>> discussion I also learned that the kpartx tool which some distributions
>> use to create the partition devices instead of dmraid only adds the 'p'
>> if the previous character is a digit.  Further discussion on mailing
>> lists indicated that this is the correct behavior that Linux has used
>> "since the dawn of time".
> Can you give a reference to that discussion?

I believe the reference to the discussion is the following thread:

[parted-devel] What is the deal with the partition separator?
http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/parted-devel/2011-February/003809.html

The discussion originated due to the following Ubuntu bug report for 
GParted:

[Natty] Gparted duplicates dmraid partition devices
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gparted/+bug/719129

Regards,
Curtis Gedak
(Maintainer of GParted)