[parted-devel] [PATCH 0/5] Add --readonly flag to parted

[Arvin Schnell]

On Thu, Feb 09, 2023 at 05:18:56PM -0800, Brian C. Lane wrote:

> The benefit of this is that you can now easily read the device without
> triggering any udev events with:
> 
> parted --script --readonly /dev/sda u s p free

This does not work on Linux if there are partitions that are not
mounted. In that case _flush_cache still opens the partitions in
WRONLY mode thus triggering udev. The problem seems to be that
while _device_open gets the flags correctly (from
_device_open_ro), _flush_cache looks at dev->read_only.

ciao
  Arvin

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