Hi,
I needed to get the current partition list early in the install phase
(just after the RAM checks) in anaconda, so I added some code there:
ds = DiskSet ()
ds . openDevices ()
ds . refreshDevices ()
drives = ds . disks.keys ()
drives . sort ()
for drive in drives:
disk = ds . disks [drive]
part = disk . next_partition ()
while part:
if part . fs_type:
fstype = part . fs_type.name
name = get_partition_name ( part )
# print fstype, "\t" , name
if name == dos_partition [0] and fstype == dos_partition [1]:
found_dos_partition = 1
parts . append ( ( name , fstype ) )
part = disk . next_partition ( part )
ds . closeDevices ()
del ds
This worked fine for getting the partitions, but caused a problem with
not being able to initialise the swap space later. It seems that
parted/fdisk are unable to flush the edited partition table to the
disk if DiskSet has been called earlier on in the program.
I've worked around the problem now by hacking a call to the parted
program and parsing the output. However, I'd still like to know if
this problem was due to something I did wrong or whether it's an
innate limitation of the software.
Regards,
-- Raju
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Raju Mathur raju@xxxxxxxxxxxxx http://kandalaya.org/
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