I noticed that running partx -d /dev/sda hangs so I looked into it and it seems that it keeps trying to delete partitions forever. Looking at the source the loop condition is: while (upper == 0 || lower <= upper) And since I did not specify a range, upper is 0 so the loop continues forever. Well, at least until lower wraps back around to 0 which will be quite a while since it is an int. How should this be fixed? It seems that removing the first condition and defaulting upper to some sane value, like say 256 should do it, but it seems there should be a better way. For that matter, it seems that the kernel should start returning an error other than EBUSY or ENXIO once you start asking it to delete partition numbers higher than the maximum allowed, which would end the loop, but this doesn't seem to happen. -- 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
