On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 03:06:37PM -0700, Bernard Li wrote: > I checked /proc/mounts, /etc/mtab and sda is not referenced there. How > does parted determine if the partitions are being used or not? Device: the kernel is asked for this via "stat". Partition: using the same files you did.
> The way we perform imaging is we first boot the system into an initial > ramdisk which we create, and the /dev comes from there. Currently, we > prepare the ramdisk from a live Linux system and /dev is populated > via: > > print ">>> Copying contents of /dev to new initrd...\n" if( > $verbose ); $cmd = qq(rsync -a /dev/ $staging_dir/dev/); !system( $cmd > ) or die( "Couldn't $cmd." ); > > So I wonder if /dev/sda rsynced this way is causing parted to behave > strangely. Probably. You could try syncing before using parted. Leslie -- gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 0x52D70289 http://nic-nac-project.de/~skypher/
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