[ Dropping #820818, which is archived. ]
Hi Ben,
Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> (2017-02-05):
> Please don't do this. The rule for Linux partition device names is
> very simple and there is no need to match specific prefixes:
>
> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/block/partition-generic.c?h=v4.9#n35
>
> Please instead use the following patch:
>
> --- a/lib/resize.sh
> +++ b/lib/resize.sh
> @@ -18,15 +18,12 @@ get_real_device () {
> num=$(sed 's/^[^0-9]*\([0-9]*\)[^0-9].*/\1/' $backupdev/$oldid/view)
> bdev=$(cat $backupdev/device)
> case $bdev in
> - */disc)
> - bdev=${bdev%/disc}/part$num
> + /dev/*[0-9])
> + bdev=${bdev}p$num
> ;;
> - /dev/[hsv]d[a-z]|/dev/xvd[a-z])
> + /dev/*)
> bdev=$bdev$num
> ;;
> - /dev/cciss/c[0-9]d[0-9]|/dev/cciss/c[0-9]d[0-9][0-9]|/dev/ida/c[0-9]d[0-9]|/dev/ida/c[0-9]d[0-9][0-9]|/dev/mmcblk[0-9])
> - bdev=${bdev}p$num
> - ;;
> *)
> log "get_real_device: strange device name $bdev"
> return
Should I apply this patch as-is, or should anything be updated there?
KiBi.
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