On Tue, May 03, 2011 at 11:57:08AM +0200, Andrea Galbusera wrote:
> Hi,
> I hit this while writing a shell script for automatically partition a device.
>
> Is there any particular reason for sfdisk to return 0, even when
> re-reading the partition table fails with the following message? I
> could find no explicit reason neither in the man page nor in this
> list's archives.
>
> Re-reading the partition table ...
> BLKRRPART: Device or resource busy
> The command to re-read the partition table failed.
> Run partprobe(8), kpartx(8) or reboot your system now,
> before using mkfs
>
> This is not a matter of why re-reading fails. Just wondering why this
> condition if not reported with a non-zero return value to the shell.
> Same result when calling sfdisk with -R on a in-use partition.
>
> If I miss a particular explanation behind this, please let me know.
> Otherwise I can try to submit a patch making sfdisk return 1 on
> failing re-read operations.
Please, send a patch (for example fdisk(8) returns non-zero on failed
BLKRRPART ioctl).
Karel
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