2010/1/22 Jeroen Oortwijn <oortwijn@xxxxxxxxx>: > 2010/1/18 Karel Zak <kzak@xxxxxxxxxx>: >> On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 08:12:49PM +0100, Jeroen Oortwijn wrote: >>> Now, I think this should be fixed in libblkid and not in the befs >>> module: when it encounters an extended partition, it should not probe >>> for a file system on it as it couldn't contain one (it's only 1024 >> >> Yes, so small device should be ignored at all. I'll fix it. > > When I probe the extended partition using the latest blkid, it doesn't > detect it as befs any longer (thanks!). But the default output doesn't > contain a newline at the end, so the command prompt will be placed > immediately after it: > > jeroen@Idefix:~/Builds/util-linux-ng$ sudo blkid -p /dev/sdb4 > /dev/sdb4: PTTYPE="dos" jeroen@Idefix:~/Builds/util-linux-ng$ > > The output when probing normal partitions does contain a newline: > > jeroen@Idefix:~/Builds/util-linux-ng$ sudo blkid -p /dev/sdb1 > /dev/sdb1: LABEL="Haiku test" TYPE="befs" USAGE="filesystem" > jeroen@Idefix:~/Builds/util-linux-ng$ Also noticed that the probing output of first extended partition contains PTTYPE, while the output of the second one (and primary partitions) doesn't: jeroen@Idefix:~/Builds/util-linux-ng$ sudo blkid -p /dev/sdb5 /dev/sdb5: PTTYPE="dos" LABEL="Ubuntu" UUID="1a89f653-e2da-4929-8b1e-444452817252" VERSION="1.0" TYPE="ext4" USAGE="filesystem" jeroen@Idefix:~/Builds/util-linux-ng$ sudo blkid -p /dev/sdb6 /dev/sdb6: UUID="af48bccd-d3c4-4159-a81a-97cf7c711f6e" VERSION="2" TYPE="swap" USAGE="other" jeroen@Idefix:~/Builds/util-linux-ng$ - Jeroen -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux-ng" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html