bsddisklabel and BLKRRPART

[Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>]

On Tue, 12 Oct 1999, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:

>>Second, it is a well known problem that either fdisk or the kernel (I think
>>it's just a missed out call to ioctl() in fdisk) will not re-scan the
>
>Reproduced here. I think it's the missing ioctl in fdisk after writing
>partitions to disk.

Here it is the fix (works fine here). Please merge it in the next
ulil-linux relases.

--- util-linux-2.9t/fdisk/fdiskbsdlabel.c.~1~	Sat May  1 13:31:05 1999
+++ util-linux-2.9t/fdisk/fdiskbsdlabel.c	Wed Oct 13 00:42:50 1999
@@ -52,6 +52,7 @@
 #include <sys/param.h>
 
 #include <linux/hdreg.h>	/* for HDIO_GETGEO */
+#include <sys/mount.h>		/* BLKRRPART */
 
 #include "common.h"
 #include "fdisk.h"
@@ -769,6 +770,9 @@
   printf (_("\nSyncing disks.\n"));
   sync ();
   sleep (4);
+  printf(_("Calling ioctl() to re-read partition table.\n"));
+  if (ioctl(fd, BLKRRPART) < 0)
+	  perror("failed to reload the partiton table");
 }
 
 #if defined (i386) || defined (sparc)

Andrea