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authorKarel Zak2013-07-12 11:57:44 +0200
committerKarel Zak2013-09-16 16:47:08 +0200
commita57639e1f83149111e9855f3a042630117fe9736 (patch)
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parentfdisk: cleanup write table code (diff)
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libfdisk: move sync() and reread PT code from fdisk to libfdisk
Signed-off-by: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'libfdisk/src/alignment.c')
-rw-r--r--libfdisk/src/alignment.c32
1 files changed, 32 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/libfdisk/src/alignment.c b/libfdisk/src/alignment.c
index 9e7d33b67..6df785a94 100644
--- a/libfdisk/src/alignment.c
+++ b/libfdisk/src/alignment.c
@@ -484,3 +484,35 @@ sector_t fdisk_scround(struct fdisk_context *cxt, sector_t num)
sector_t un = fdisk_context_get_units_per_sector(cxt);
return (num + un - 1) / un;
}
+
+int fdisk_reread_partition_table(struct fdisk_context *cxt)
+{
+ int i;
+ struct stat statbuf;
+
+ assert(cxt);
+ assert(cxt->dev_fd >= 0);
+
+ i = fstat(cxt->dev_fd, &statbuf);
+ if (i == 0 && S_ISBLK(statbuf.st_mode)) {
+ sync();
+#ifdef BLKRRPART
+ fdisk_info(cxt, _("Calling ioctl() to re-read partition table."));
+ i = ioctl(cxt->dev_fd, BLKRRPART);
+#else
+ errno = ENOSYS;
+ i = 1;
+#endif
+ }
+
+ if (i) {
+ fdisk_warn(cxt, _("Re-reading the partition table failed."));
+ fdisk_info(cxt, _(
+ "The kernel still uses the old table. The "
+ "new table will be used at the next reboot "
+ "or after you run partprobe(8) or kpartx(8)."));
+ return -errno;
+ }
+
+ return 0;
+}