Dear developers, I am writing a script using kpartx. It seems to be a very very nice tool that will make my life a lot easier! As I understood it, when I call $ kpartx -a disk.img kpartx chooses a "device name" X, detects the partitions and their numbers N, and creates device nodes with naming XpN. As I understood it, the correct way to know what name X was chosen, is to parse the output. I am not comfortable on depending on the format of something that looks to be intended for humans and not computers. I think it would be really nice if I could choose the name X myself. Of course, I would get an error if the name is already in use... In my script, I know the partition numbers. I can choose the delimiter with "-p". In my opinion, it would be nice if: 1. I could chose X myself; or 2. If there was an option to get the output of kpartx to be just the path to the "root" device; or 3. If there was an option to get the output of kpartx to be standard and intended for parsing; or 4. The documentation stated that the output is not supposed to change in future versions of kpartx. Well... maybe I just missed the "correct" way to script with kpartx. In this case, I would be happy with some guidance... :-) In my script, I create a file with dd, partition it using sfdisk, then mount it using kpartx/mount. Thank you for your time and patience... André Caldas. -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel
