Hi. I've manually created a block device in /dev/mapper/ with command "dmsetup create"
Now, is there a program to discower partitions on it? I tried partprobe, it prints the partitions, but then complains that it can't inform the kernel and new nodes are also not created.
Code:
Error: Error informing the kernel about modifications to partition /dev/mapper/_dev_sdb_cow1 -- Invalid argument. This means Linux won't know about any changes you made to /dev/mapper/_dev_sdb_cow1 until you reboot -- so you shouldn't mount it or use it in any way before rebooting.
I know that dmraid program can detect software RAIDs, detect partitions on them and create corresponding nodes in /dev/mapper/. Can I re-use partition detection part for non-raids?
Currently I workaround that by parsin fdisk output:
Code:
cow_partitions_discower() {
echo "discovering partitions on $1... " >&2
if [ "$2" = "remove" ]; then REMOVE=1; else REMOVE=0; fi
(export LC_ALL="C"; fdisk -l -u "$1" 2>&1 ) | awk \
-v "dev=$1" -v "numfound=0" \
-v "remove=$REMOVE" \
-v "failmarker=This doesn't look like a partition table|doesn't contain a valid partition table" \
'{
if (0<match($0,failmarker)) { system("echo \"ERROR: " $0 "\" >&2"); error = 1; exit 1; }
if (substr($0, 1, length(dev)) == dev) {
numfound = numfound + 1;
$0=substr($0,length(dev)+1); sub("\\*"," ");
shortdev=dev;sub(".*/","",shortdev);
if (remove) {
print "dmsetup remove \"" shortdev $1 "\""
} else {
print "echo \"0 " $3-$2+1 " linear " dev " " $2 "\" | dmsetup create \"" shortdev $1 "\" || exit 1;"
}
}
}
END {
if (NR==0) { system("echo \"ERROR: fdisk could not open device: " dev "\" >&2"); error = 1; exit 1; }
if (error != 1) { if (remove==1) s = "remove"; else s = "add"; system("echo \"partitions to " s ": " numfound "\" >&2"); } }
'
}
[root@myhost dev]# cow_partitions_discower /dev/sdb
discovering partitions on /dev/sdb...
echo "0 4192902 linear /dev/sdb 63" | dmsetup create "sdb1" || exit 1;
echo "0 36804915 linear /dev/sdb 4192965" | dmsetup create "sdb2" || exit 1;
echo "0 719792325 linear /dev/sdb 40997880" | dmsetup create "sdb3" || exit 1;
partitions to add: 3
[root@myhost dev]# cow_partitions_discower /dev/sdb | sh
discovering partitions on /dev/sdb...
partitions to add: 3
[root@myhost dev]# ls /dev/mapper/
control sdb1 sdb2 sdb3
