Also with exfatprogs 1.1.0 [1], tune.exfat and exfatlabel gained the
capability to report and set the exFAT Volume Serial Number [2][3][4].
This is what blkid and therefore GParted reports as the UUID.
Report serial number:
# tune.exfat -i /dev/sdb1
exfatprogs version : 1.1.0
volume serial : 0x772ffe5d
# echo $?
0
# blkid /dev/sdb1
/dev/sdb1: LABEL="test exfat" UUID="772F-FE5D" TYPE="exfat" PTTYPE="dos"
Set serial number:
# tune.exfat -I 0xf96ef190 /dev/sdb1
exfatprogs version : 1.1.0
New volume serial : 0xf96ef190
# echo $?
0
tune.exfat exists in earlier releases of exfatprogs so check it has the
capability by searching for "Set volume serial" in the help output
before enabling this capability.
# tune.exfat
exfatprogs version : 1.1.0
Usage: tune.exfat
-l | --print-label Print volume label
-L | --set-label=label Set volume label
-i | --print-serial Print volume serial
-L | --set-serial=value Set volume serial
-V | --version Show version
-v | --verbose Print debug
-h | --help Show help
(Note the cut and paste error reporting the set volume serial flag as
'-L' rather than actually '-S').
[1] exfatprogs-1.1.0 version released
http://github.com/exfaoprogs/exfatprogs/releases/tag/1.1.0
[2] [tools][feature request] Allow To Change Volume Serial Number ("ID")
#138https://github.com/exfatprogs/exfatprogs/issues/138
[3] exfatlabel:add get/set volume serial option
b4d9c9eeb5
[4] exFAT file system specification, 3.1.11 VolumeSerialNumber Field
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/fileio/exfat-specification#3111-volumeserialnumber-fieldCloses!67 - Add support for reading exFAT usage and updating the UUID
exfatprogs 1.1.0 released 2021-02-09 [1] has gained support for
reporting file system usage [2][3] so add that capability to GParted.
It works like this:
# dump.exfat /dev/sdb1 | egrep 'Volume Length\(sectors\):|Sector Size Bits:|Sector per Cluster bits:|Free Clusters:'
Volume Length(sectors): 524288
Sector Size Bits: 9
Sector per Cluster bits: 3
Free Clusters: 23585
Unfortunately dump.exfat returns a non-zero status on success so that
can't be used to check for failure:
# dump.exfat /dev/sdb1
exfatprogs version : 1.1.0
-------------- Dump Boot sector region --------------
Volume Length(sectors): 524288
...
# echo $?
192
dump.exfat only writes errors to stderr, so use this to identify failure:
# dump.exfat /dev/sdb1 1> /dev/null
# echo $?
192
# dump.exfat /dev/zero 1> /dev/null
invalid block device size(/dev/zero)
bogus sector size bits : 0
# echo $?
234
[1] exfatprogs-1.1.0 version released
http://github.com/exfaoprogs/exfatprogs/releases/tag/1.1.0
[2] [feature request] File system usage reporting
https://github.com/exfatprogs/exfatprogs/issues/139
[3] exfatprogs: add dump.exfat
7ce9b2336bCloses!67 - Add support for reading exFAT usage and updating the UUID
A user had exfat-utils installed and tried to use GParted to create an
exfat file system. GParted ran this command but it failed:
# mkfs.exfat -L '' '/dev/sdb1'
mkexfatfs 1.3.0
mkfs.exfat: invalid option -- 'L'
Usage: mkfs.exfat [-i volume-id] [-n label] [-p partition-first-sector] [-s sectors-per-cluster] [-V] <device>
The problem is that both exfat-utils and exfatprogs packages provide
mkfs.exfat and fsck.exfat commands but they have incompatible command
line options and GParted is programmed for exfatprogs. So far GParted
just checks the executable exists, hence the mis-identification.
Reported version of exfat-utils commands:
$ mkfs.exfat -V 2> /dev/null
mkexfatfs 1.3.0
Copyright (C) 2011-2018 Andrew Nayenko
$ fsck.exfat -V 2> /dev/null
exfatfsck 1.3.0
Copyright (C) 2011-2018 Andrew Nayenko
Reported versions of exfatprogs commands:
$ mkfs.exfat -V 2> /dev/null
exfatprogs version : 1.0.4
$ fsck.exfat -V 2> /dev/null
exfatprogs version : 1.0.4
Fix this by only enabling exfat support also when the version string of
each command starts "exfatprogs version". Note that this extra checking
is not needed for tune.exfat because only exfatprogs provides that
executable.
Closes#137 - Creating exfat partition with a label fails with error
gparted shell wrapper always exits with a 0 status even if gpartedbin
fails. For example make gpartedbin fail with a non-zero exit status
like this:
$ (unset DISPLAY; unset XAUTHORITY; /usr/sbin/gpartedbin)
(gpartedbin:3936): Gtk-WARNING **: 16:36:06.263: cannot open display:
$ echo $?
1
However the gparted shell wrapper instead exits with successful status
0:
$ (unset DISPLAY; unset XAUTHORITY; gparted)
(gpartedbin:4282): Gtk-WARNING **: 16:39:23.514: cannot open display:
$ echo $?
0
Fix this.
This method is now only called from one location in the code so put it's
two lines of code there.
Closes#131 - GParted hangs when non-named device is hung
Now we always want to run blkid naming all paths, ensure the FS_Info
cache is explicitly loaded first. Report an error if not done so and
remove the cache loading code from running blkid without naming all
paths. Fewer code paths to consider and reason about.
Closes#131 - GParted hangs when non-named device is hung
Again on Fedora 31 with a slightly different disk layout to the previous
commit. sdb is partitioned with 1 empty partition and sdc remains
completely empty:
# lsblk -o name,maj:min,rm,size,ro,type,fstype,label,mountpoint
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE FSTYPE LABEL MOUNTPOINT
sda 8:0 0 20G 0 disk
|-sda1 8:1 0 1G 0 part ext4 /boot
\-sda2 8:2 0 19G 0 part LVM2_member
|-fedora-root 253:0 0 17G 0 lvm ext4 /
\-fedora-swap 253:1 0 2G 0 lvm swap [SWAP]
sdb 8:16 0 8G 0 disk
\-sdb1 8:17 0 1G 0 part
sdc 8:32 0 8G 0 disk
sr0 11:0 1 1024M 0 rom
# blkid -v
blkid from util-linux 2.34 (libblkid 2.34.0, 14-Jun-2019)
# blkid /dev/sda /dev/sda1 /dev/sda2 /dev/sdb /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdc
/dev/sda: PTUUID="5012fb1f" PTTYPE="dos"
/dev/sda1: UUID="3cd48816-7817-4636-9fec-5f1afe76c1b2" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="5012fb1f-01"
/dev/sda2: UUID="PH94ej-C8xU-bnMJ-UIh8-ZimI-4B7f-dHlZxh" TYPE="LVM2_member" PARTUUID="5012fb1f-02"
/dev/sdb: PTUUID="1d120b57" PTTYPE="dos"
/dev/sdb1: PARTUUID="1d120b57-01"
Stracing GParted shows these executions of blkid:
# strace -f -q -bexecve -eexecve ./gpartedbin 2>&1 1> /dev/null | egrep -v 'ENOENT|SIGCHLD'
...
[pid 160040] execve("/usr/sbin/blkid", ["blkid", "/dev/sda", "/dev/sda1", "/dev/sda2", "/dev/sdb", "/dev/sdb1", "/dev/sdc"], 0xa4e1b0 /* 32 vars */ <detached ...>
[pid 160041] execve("/usr/sbin/blkid", ["blkid", "/dev/sdc"], 0xa4e1b0 /* 32 vars */ <detached ...>
...
On Fedora 31 with blkid from util-linux 2.34 it reports information for
sdb (partitioned drive) and sdb1 (empty partition) with only no
information for sdc (empty whole disk drive). Hence no FS_Info cache
entry and re-execution of blkid just for sdc.
On older CentOS 7 with the same disk layout blkid reports this:
# blkid -v
blkid from util-linux 2.23.2 (libblkid 2.23.0, 25-Apr-2013)
# blkid /dev/sda /dev/sda1 /dev/sda2 /dev/sdb /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdc
/dev/sda: PTTYPE="dos"
/dev/sda1: UUID="e7d559e4-3e1d-4fbc-b034-3fdeb498f44d" TYPE="xfs"
/dev/sda2: UUID="B7ODFx-BfTE-hq7N-UlrF-f5ML-CPRe-klSy26" TYPE="LVM2_member"
/dev/sdb: PTTYPE="dos"
And stracing GParted shows these executions of blkid:
# strace -f -q -bexecve -eexecve ./gpartedbin 2>&1 1> /dev/null | egrep -v 'ENOENT|SIGCHLD'
...
[pid 1889] execve("/sbin/blkid", ["blkid", "/dev/sda", "/dev/sda1", "/dev/sda2", "/dev/sdb", "/dev/sdb1", "/dev/sdc"], 0x10b8b10 /* 26 vars */ <detached ...>
[pid 1890] execve("/sbin/blkid", ["blkid", "/dev/sdb1"], 0x10b8b10 /* 26 vars */ <detached ...>
[pid 1891] execve("/sbin/blkid", ["blkid", "/dev/sdc"], 0x10b8b10 /* 26 vars */ <detached ...>
...
This time on CentOS 7 with blkid from util-linux 2.23.2 it reports
information for only sdb (partitioned drive), but not sdb1 (empty
partition) or sdc (empty whole disk drive). Hence no FS_info cache
entries and re-execution of blkid for both sdb1 and sdc.
GParted needs blkid identification of file system images, LVM Logical
Volumes or any other partitions named on the command line which it
wouldn't normally scan [1]. Now every name of interest is passed to
blkid, additional executions of blkid won't get any extra information
and are redundant. Therefore remove this unnecessary code.
Note that these last 2 commits remove creation of "blank" cache entries
(just block special with blank fstype and other attributes) when blkid
reports no information for a particular path. Those entry were needed
to suppress unnecessary additional execution of blkid. However now that
blkid is only executed once (excluding querying the label) this is no
longer necessary. All the getter functions return suitable blank values
when no cache entry is found.
[1] e8f0504b13
Make sure that FS_Info cache is loaded for all named paths (#787181)
Closes#131 - GParted hangs when non-named device is hung
On Fedora 31 with this simple disk layout where both sdb and sdc are
completely empty:
# lsblk -o name,maj:min,rm,size,ro,type,fstype,label,mountpoint
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE FSTYPE LABEL MOUNTPOINT
sda 8:0 0 20G 0 disk
|-sda1 8:1 0 1G 0 part ext4 /boot
\-sda2 8:2 0 19G 0 part LVM2_member
|-fedora-root 253:0 0 17G 0 lvm ext4 /
\-fedora-swap 253:1 0 2G 0 lvm swap [SWAP]
sdb 8:16 0 8G 0 disk
sdc 8:32 0 8G 0 disk
sr0 11:0 1 1024M 0 rom
# blkid /dev/sda /dev/sda1 /dev/sda2 /dev/sdb /dev/sdc
/dev/sda: PTUUID="5012fb1f" PTTYPE="dos"
/dev/sda1: UUID="3cd48816-7817-4636-9fec-5f1afe76c1b2" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="5012fb1f-01"
/dev/sda2: UUID="PH94ej-C8xU-bnMJ-UIh8-ZimI-4B7f-dHlZxh" TYPE="LVM2_member" PARTUUID="5012fb1f-02"
Stracing GParted shows extra executions of blkid:
# strace -f -q -bexecve -eexecve ./gpartedbin 2>&1 1> /dev/null | egrep -v 'ENOENT|SIGCHLD'
...
[pid 7659] execve("/usr/sbin/blkid", ["blkid", "/dev/sda", "/dev/sda1", "/dev/sda2", "/dev/sdb", "/dev/sdc"], 0x1d300f0 /* 32 vars */ <detached ...>
[pid 7660] execve("/usr/sbin/blkid", ["blkid", "/dev/sdb"], 0x1d300f0 /* 32 vars */ <detached ...>
[pid 7661] execve("/usr/sbin/blkid", ["blkid", "/dev/sdc"], 0x1d300f0 /* 32 vars */ <detached ...>
...
blkid is only run again for sdb and sdc, not sda, because blkid didn't
report anything for them from the first execution. GParted needs blkid
identification of whole disk devices to ensure that ISO9660 images on
whole disk devices are correctly identified [1]. Now the first run of
blkid passes all the device names, so this additional execution of blkid
won't get any extra information and is redundant. Therefore remove this
unnecessary code.
[1] b2190372d0
Ensure blkid FS_Info cache has entries for all whole disk devices
(#771244)
Closes#131 - GParted hangs when non-named device is hung
A user reported that GParted would hang at "scanning all devices...",
when a fully working disk was named on the command line, but another
device on the machine was hung.
This can be replicated like this:
(on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS for it's NBD support)
1. Export and import NBD:
# truncate -s 1G /tmp/disk-1G.img
# nbd-server -C /dev/null 9000 /tmp/disk-1G.img
# nbd-client localhost 9000 /dev/nbd0
2. Hang the NBD server and therefore /dev/nbd0:
# killall -STOP nbd-server
3. Run GParted:
$ gparted /dev/sda
Tracing GParted shows that execution of blkid never returns.
# strace -f -tt -q -bexecve -eexecve ./gpartedbin 2>&1 1> /dev/null | fgrep -v ENOENT
...
[pid 37823] 13:56:24.814139 execve("/usr/sbin/mkudffs", ["mkudffs", "--help"], 0x55e2a3f2d230 /* 20 vars */ <detached ...>
[pid 37814] 13:56:24.829246 --- SIGCHLD {si_signo=SIGCHLD, si_code=CLD_EXITED, si_pid=37823, si_uid=0, si_status=1, si_utime=0, si_stime=0} ---
[pid 37825] 13:56:25.376796 execve("/usr/sbin/blkid", ["blkid", "-v"], 0x55e2a3f2d230 /* 20 vars */ <detached ...>
[pid 37824] 13:56:25.380824 --- SIGCHLD {si_signo=SIGCHLD, si_code=CLD_EXITED, si_pid=37825, si_uid=0, si_status=0, si_utime=0, si_stime=0} ---
[pid 37826] 13:56:25.402512 execve("/usr/sbin/blkid", ["blkid"], 0x55e2a3f2d230 /* 20 vars */ <detached ...>
Tracking of blkid shows that it hangs on either the open of or first
read from /dev/nbd0.
# strace blkid
...
lstat("/dev", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4560, ...}) = 0
lstat("/dev/nbd0", {st_mode=S_IFBLK|0660, st_rdev=makedev(0x2b, 0), ...}) = 0
stat("/dev/nbd0", {st_mode=S_IFBLK|0660, st_rdev=makedev(0x2b, 0), ...}) = 0
lstat("/dev", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4560, ...}) = 0
lstat("/dev/nbd0", {st_mode=S_IFBLK|0660, st_rdev=makedev(0x2b, 0), ...}) = 0
access("/dev/nbd0", F_OK) = 0
stat("/dev/nbd0", {st_mode=S_IFBLK|0660, st_rdev=makedev(0x2b, 0), ...}) = 0
openat(AT_FDCWD, "/sys/dev/block/43:0", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 4
openat(4, "dm/uuid", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
close(4) = 0
openat(AT_FDCWD, "/dev/nbd0", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC
Clean up:
1. Resume NBD server:
# killall -CONT nbd-server
2. Delete NBD setup:
# nbd-client -d /dev/nbd0
# killall nbd-server
# rm /tmp/disk-1G.img
Fix this by making GParted specify the whole disk device and partition
names that it is interested in to blkid, rather than letting blkid scan
and report all block devices. Do this both when GParted determines the
devices for itself and when they are named on the command line.
Also update example blkid command output being parsed and cache value
with this change to how blkid is executed.
Closes#131 - GParted hangs when non-named device is hung
GParted already always reads /proc/partitions for whole disk device
names no matter whether it uses whole disk devices named on the command
line, from /proc/partitions or from libparted. As /proc/partitions
lists all the block devices that the kernel knows about, and therefore
all the possible ones blkid could probe, so use it to provide partition
names and device to partition mapping. See code comments for more
details about the assumptions the /proc/partition parsing code makes and
the fact that these are confirmed by examining the Linux kernel source.
This commit just adds debugging to print the existing vector of
validated devices GParted shows in the UI and the vector with all
partitions added, ready for but not yet passed to blkid.
# ./gpartedbin
...
DEBUG: device_paths=["/dev/sda","/dev/sdb"]
DEBUG: device_and_partition_paths=["/dev/sda","/dev/sda1","/dev/sda2","/dev/sdb","/dev/sdb1"]
Also demonstrating that this continues to support named devices,
including file system image files [1].
# truncate -s 256M /tmp/ext4.img
# mkfs.ext4 /tmp/ext4.img
# ./gpartedbin /dev/sda /tmp/ext4.img
...
DEBUG: device_paths=["/dev/sda","/tmp/ext4.img"]
DEBUG: device_and_partition_paths=["/dev/sda","/dev/sda1","/dev/sda2","/tmp/ext4.img"]
[1] e8f0504b13
Make sure that FS_Info cache is loaded for all named paths (#787181)
Closes#131 - GParted hangs when non-named device is hung
Put whole disk device name matching code into a helper function to make
the /proc/partition parsing code easier to understand.
Closes#131 - GParted hangs when non-named device is hung
Now FS_Info::load_cache() and ::load_cache_for_paths() are nearly next
to each other, merge them together to simplify the code a little. This
makes the special case to ensure that file system images named on the
command line were queried by blkid and loaded into the FS_Info cache [1]
become the normal cache loading method. Already passing all discovered
or named devices to load_cache_for_paths() is also a step on the way to
doing it for all devices and partitions of interest.
Just need to ensure that load_cache_for_paths() always loads the cache
as load_cache() did, rather than only when it hadn't already been
loaded. Otherwise GParted will only ever run blkid and load the cache
once at startup and not on each refresh.
[1] e8f0504b13
Make sure that FS_Info cache is loaded for all named paths (#787181)
Closes#131 - GParted hangs when non-named device is hung
PATCHSET OVERVIEW
A user reported that GParted would hang at "scanning all devices...",
when a fully working disk was named on the command line, but another
device on the machine was hung.
This can be replicated like this:
(on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS for it's NBD support)
1. Export and import NBD:
# truncate -s 1G /tmp/disk-1G.img
# nbd-server -C /dev/null 9000 /tmp/disk-1G.img
# nbd-client localhost 9000 /dev/nbd0
2. Hang the NBD server and therefore /dev/nbd0:
# killall -STOP nbd-server
3. Run GParted:
$ gparted /dev/sda
Tracing GParted shows that execution of blkid never returns.
# strace -f -tt -q -bexecve -eexecve /usr/sbin/gpartedbin 2>&1 1> /dev/null | fgrep -v ENOENT
...
[pid 37823] 13:56:24.814139 execve("/usr/sbin/mkudffs", ["mkudffs", "--help"], 0x55e2a3f2d230 /* 20 vars */ <detached ...>
[pid 37814] 13:56:24.829246 --- SIGCHLD {si_signo=SIGCHLD, si_code=CLD_EXITED, si_pid=37823, si_uid=0, si_status=1, si_utime=0, si_stime=0} ---
[pid 37825] 13:56:25.376796 execve("/usr/sbin/blkid", ["blkid", "-v"], 0x55e2a3f2d230 /* 20 vars */ <detached ...>
[pid 37824] 13:56:25.380824 --- SIGCHLD {si_signo=SIGCHLD, si_code=CLD_EXITED, si_pid=37825, si_uid=0, si_status=0, si_utime=0, si_stime=0} ---
[pid 37826] 13:56:25.402512 execve("/usr/sbin/blkid", ["blkid"], 0x55e2a3f2d230 /* 20 vars */ <detached ...>
Tracing of blkid shows that it hangs on either the open of or first
read from /dev/nbd0.
# strace blkid
...
lstat("/dev", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4560, ...}) = 0
lstat("/dev/nbd0", {st_mode=S_IFBLK|0660, st_rdev=makedev(0x2b, 0), ...}) = 0
stat("/dev/nbd0", {st_mode=S_IFBLK|0660, st_rdev=makedev(0x2b, 0), ...}) = 0
lstat("/dev", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4560, ...}) = 0
lstat("/dev/nbd0", {st_mode=S_IFBLK|0660, st_rdev=makedev(0x2b, 0), ...}) = 0
access("/dev/nbd0", F_OK) = 0
stat("/dev/nbd0", {st_mode=S_IFBLK|0660, st_rdev=makedev(0x2b, 0), ...}) = 0
openat(AT_FDCWD, "/sys/dev/block/43:0", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 4
openat(4, "dm/uuid", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
close(4) = 0
openat(AT_FDCWD, "/dev/nbd0", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC
Clean up:
1. Resume NBD server:
# killall -CONT nbd-server
2. Delete NBD setup:
# nbd-client -d /dev/nbd0
# killall nbd-server
# rm /tmp/disk-1G.img
Going to fix this by making GParted specify the device and partition
names that it is interested in to blkid, rather than letting blkid scan
and report all block devices. Do this both when GParted determines the
devices for itself and when they are named on the command line.
THIS PATCH
Move the loading and initialising of caches used during content
discovery to after device and partition discovery and just before
content discovery. Just makes the code ready for the next change.
Closes#131 - GParted hangs when non-named device is hung
Install exfatprogs into the CentOS 7 GitLab CI image, enabling unit
testing of GParted's use of exFAT programs. Exfatprogs is not yet
available for Ubuntu 20.04 as used in the Ubuntu GitLab CI image, only
for Ubuntu 20.10 so far.
Closes!30 - Add exFAT support
Libparted only allows selection of the partition type indirectly by
specifying the type of the file system it will contain [1] and so far
doesn't know about the exFAT file system. Therefore when GParted is
creating a new exFAT partition, it gets the GParted default of 83
(Linux file system) on MBR partition tables.
Example operation details:
Create Primary Partition #1 (exfat, 512.00 MiB) on /dev/sdb
* create empty partition
* clear old file system signatures in /dev/sdb1
* set partition type on /dev/sdb1
new partition type: ext2
* create new exfat file system
fdisk report:
# fdisk -l /dev/sdb
Disk /dev/sdb: 8 GiB, 8589934592 bytes, 16777216 sectors
Disk model: VBOX HARDDISK
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0xa2aab629
Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type
/dev/sdb1 2048 1050623 1048576 512M 83 Linux
However the "exFAT file system specification" says:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/fileio/exfat-specification
"10.2 Partition Tables
To ensure interoperability of exFAT volumes in a broad set of usage
scenarios, implementations should use partition type 07h for MBR
partitioned storage and partition GUID
{EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7} for GPT partitioned storage.
"
Fix this.
[1] ped_partition_new(..., const PedFileSystemType* fs_type, ...)
https://www.gnu.org/software/parted/api/group__PedPartition.html#g2f94ca75880f9e0c3ce57f7a4b72faf5
ped_partition_set_system(..., const PedFileSystemType* fs_type)
https://www.gnu.org/software/parted/api/group__PedPartition.html#g2f94ca75880f9e0c3ce57f7a4b72faf5Closes!30 - Add exFAT support
With exfatprogs (https://github.com/exfatprogs/exfatprogs) installed the
following operations on exFAT file systems are supported:
- Creation
- Checking
- Labelling
As of the current exfatprogs 1.0.4 the following are not supported:
- Reading usage
- Resizing
- Updating the UUID
Closes!30 - Add exFAT support
On Ubuntu the gparted shell wrapper still attempts to mask lots of
non-block device based file systems. Remove the --quiet option from the
systemctl --runtime mask command to see:
$ gparted
Created symlink /run/systemd/system/snap-gnome\x2d3\x2d34\x2d1804-66.mount -> /dev/null.
Created symlink /run/systemd/system/snap-core-10583.mount -> /dev/null.
Created symlink /run/systemd/system/boot-efi.mount -> /dev/null.
Created symlink /run/systemd/system/snap-gtk\x2dcommon\x2dthemes-1514.mount -> /dev/null.
Created symlink /run/systemd/system/snap-core-10577.mount -> /dev/null.
Created symlink /run/systemd/system/snap-core18-1944.mount -> /dev/null.
Created symlink /run/systemd/system/run-user-1000-doc.mount -> /dev/null.
Created symlink /run/systemd/system/snap-gtk\x2dcommon\x2dthemes-1506.mount -> /dev/null.
Created symlink /run/systemd/system/snap-gnome\x2d3\x2d28\x2d1804-128.mount -> /dev/null.
Created symlink /run/systemd/system/snap-snap\x2dstore-518.mount -> /dev/null.
Created symlink /run/systemd/system/snap-gnome\x2d3\x2d28\x2d1804-145.mount -> /dev/null.
Created symlink /run/systemd/system/snap-core18-1932.mount -> /dev/null.
Created symlink /run/systemd/system/snap-snap\x2dstore-467.mount -> /dev/null.
Created symlink /run/systemd/system/snap-gnome\x2d3\x2d34\x2d1804-60.mount -> /dev/null.
Created symlink /run/systemd/system/-.mount -> /dev/null.
GParted 1.0.0
configuration --enable-libparted-dmraid --enable-online-resize
libparted 3.3
The gparted shell wrapper is currently looking for non-masked Systemd
mount units where the 'What' property starts "/dev/". However Ubuntu
also uses snap packages which are mounted file images via loop devices:
$ grep '^/dev/' /proc/mounts | sort
/dev/fuse /run/user/1000/doc fuse rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=1000,group_id=1000 0 0
/dev/loop0 /snap/core/10583 squashfs ro,nodev,relatime 0 0
/dev/loop10 /snap/snap-store/518 squashfs ro,nodev,relatime 0 0
/dev/loop11 /snap/snap-store/467 squashfs ro,nodev,relatime 0 0
/dev/loop12 /snap/gtk-common-themes/1506 squashfs ro,nodev,relatime 0 0
/dev/loop1 /snap/core/10577 squashfs ro,nodev,relatime 0 0
/dev/loop3 /snap/core18/1944 squashfs ro,nodev,relatime 0 0
/dev/loop4 /snap/core18/1932 squashfs ro,nodev,relatime 0 0
/dev/loop5 /snap/gnome-3-34-1804/66 squashfs ro,nodev,relatime 0 0
/dev/loop6 /snap/gnome-3-28-1804/128 squashfs ro,nodev,relatime 0 0
/dev/loop7 /snap/gnome-3-34-1804/60 squashfs ro,nodev,relatime 0 0
/dev/loop8 /snap/gnome-3-28-1804/145 squashfs ro,nodev,relatime 0 0
/dev/loop9 /snap/gtk-common-themes/1514 squashfs ro,nodev,relatime 0 0
/dev/sda1 /boot/efi vfat rw,relatime,fmask=0077,dmask=0077,codepage=437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,errors=remount-ro 0 0
/dev/sda5 / ext4 rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro 0 0
Fix by excluding:
1. Device name "/dev/fuse" because it's a character not a block device
and the mount point is associated with snap,
2. Device names starting "/dev/loop" and where the mount point starts
"/snap/" [1]. This is to allow for use of GParted with explicitly
named loop devices.
[1] The system /snap directory
https://snapcraft.io/docs/system-snap-directoryCloses#129 - Unit \xe2\x97\x8f.service does not exist, proceeding
anyway
The gparted shell wrapper masks Systemd mount units to prevent it
automounting file systems while GParted is running [1], excluding
virtual file system which GParted isn't interested in [2]. The problem
is that there are a lot of virtual file systems and they have changed
between Fedora 19 and 33 so now the exclusion list is out of date.
Run GParted on Fedora 33 and query the mount units while it is running:
$ systemctl list-units -t mount --full --all
UNIT LOAD ACTIVE SUB DESCRIPTION
-.mount loaded active mounted Root Mount
* boot.mount masked active mounted /boot
dev-hugepages.mount loaded active mounted Huge Pages File System
dev-mqueue.mount loaded active mounted POSIX Message Queue File System
* home.mount masked active mounted /home
* proc-fs-nfsd.mount masked inactive dead proc-fs-nfsd.mount
proc-sys-fs-binfmt_misc.mount loaded inactive dead Arbitrary Executable File Formats File System
run-user-1000-gvfs.mount loaded active mounted /run/user/1000/gvfs
* run-user-1000.mount masked active mounted /run/user/1000
* run-user-42.mount masked active mounted /run/user/42
sys-fs-fuse-connections.mount loaded active mounted FUSE Control File System
sys-kernel-config.mount loaded active mounted Kernel Configuration File System
sys-kernel-debug.mount loaded active mounted Kernel Debug File System
* sys-kernel-tracing.mount masked active mounted /sys/kernel/tracing
* sysroot.mount masked inactive dead sysroot.mount
* tmp.mount masked active mounted /tmp
* var-lib-machines.mount masked inactive dead var-lib-machines.mount
* var-lib-nfs-rpc_pipefs.mount masked active mounted /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs
* var.mount masked inactive dead var.mount
LOAD = Reflects whether the unit definition was properly loaded.
ACTIVE = The high-level unit activation state, i.e. generalization of SUB.
SUB = The low-level unit activation state, values depend on unit type.
19 loaded units listed.
To show all installed unit files use 'systemctl list-unit-files'.
So it masked these virtual file systems which didn't need to be masked:
* proc-fs-nfsd.mount masked inactive dead proc-fs-nfsd.mount
* run-user-1000.mount masked active mounted /run/user/1000
* run-user-42.mount masked active mounted /run/user/42
* sys-kernel-tracing.mount masked active mounted /sys/kernel/tracing
* var-lib-machines.mount masked inactive dead var-lib-machines.mount
* var-lib-nfs-rpc_pipefs.mount masked active mounted /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs
Lines from /proc/partitions for some of these virtual file systems:
$ egrep '/run/user|/sys/kernel/tracing|/var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs' /proc/mounts
tmpfs /run/user/42 tmpfs rw,seclabel,nosuid,nodev,relatime,size=202656k,nr_inodes=50664,mode=700,uid=42,gid=42,inode64 0 0
tmpfs /run/user/1000 tmpfs rw,seclabel,nosuid,nodev,relatime,size=202656k,nr_inodes=50664,mode=700,uid=1000,gid=1000,inode64 0 0
none /sys/kernel/tracing tracefs rw,seclabel,relatime 0 0
sunrpc /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs rpc_pipefs rw,relatime 0 0
gvfsd-fuse /run/user/1000/gvfs fuse.gvfsd-fuse rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=1000,group_id=1000 0 0
And for contrast the lines from /proc/mounts for disk backed file systems:
$ egrep '^/dev/' /proc/mounts
/dev/sda1 /boot ext4 rw,seclabel,relatime 0 0
/dev/sda2 / btrfs rw,seclabel,relatime,space_cache,subvolid=258,subvol=/root 0 0
/dev/sda2 /home btrfs rw,seclabel,relatime,space_cache,subvolid=256,subvol=/home 0 0
Going back to first principles GParted cares that Systemd doesn't
automount file systems on block devices. So instead only mask mount
units which are on block devices. Where the 'What' property starts
"/dev/".
Systemd maintains hundreds of properties for each unit.
$ systemctl show boot.mount | wc -l
221
The properties of interest for all mount units can be queries like this:
$ systemctl show --all --property=What,Id,LoadState '*.mount'
...
What=sunrpc
Id=var-lib-nfs-rpc_pipefs.mount
LoadState=masked
What=/dev/sda1
Id=boot.mount
LoadState=masked
...
[1] 4c109df9b5
Use systemctl runtime mask to prevent automounting (#701676)
[2] 43de8e326a
Do not mask virtual file systems when using systemctl (#708378)
Closes#129 - Unit \xe2\x97\x8f.service does not exist, proceeding
anyway
With Systemd 246 on Fedora 33, running GParted reports this error and no
longer masks the system mount units:
$ gparted
Unit \xe2\x97\x8f.service does not exist, proceeding anyway.
Unit \xe2\x97\x8f.service does not exist, proceeding anyway.
GParted 1.1.0
configuration --enable-libparted-dmraid --enable-online-resize
libparted 3.3
$ systemctl list-units -t mount --full --all --no-legend
-.mount loaded active mounted Root Mount
boot.mount loaded active mounted /boot
dev-hugepages.mount loaded active mounted Huge Pages File System
dev-mqueue.mount loaded active mounted POSIX Message Queue File System
home.mount loaded active mounted /home
proc-fs-nfsd.mount loaded inactive dead NFSD configuration filesystem
proc-sys-fs-binfmt_misc.mount loaded inactive dead Arbitrary Executable File Formats File System
run-user-1000-gvfs.mount loaded active mounted /run/user/1000/gvfs
run-user-1000.mount loaded active mounted /run/user/1000
run-user-42.mount loaded active mounted /run/user/42
sys-fs-fuse-connections.mount loaded active mounted FUSE Control File System
sys-kernel-config.mount loaded active mounted Kernel Configuration File System
sys-kernel-debug.mount loaded active mounted Kernel Debug File System
sys-kernel-tracing.mount loaded active mounted Kernel Trace File System
* sysroot.mount not-found inactive dead sysroot.mount
tmp.mount loaded active mounted Temporary Directory (/tmp)
var-lib-machines.mount loaded inactive dead Virtual Machine and Container Storage (Compatibility)
var-lib-nfs-rpc_pipefs.mount loaded active mounted RPC Pipe File System
* var.mount not-found inactive dead var.mount
^
[Unicode Black Circle character (U+25CF) replaced with star to avoid
making this this commit message Unicode.]
Currently the gparted shell wrapper lists the Systemd mount units and
takes the first space separated column as the unit name. If the LOAD
status of the unit is not "loaded" then Systemd prefixes the name with
an optional Black Circle. Prior to Systemd 246 these extra 2 characters
at the start of the line, including the optional Black Circle, were
suppressed by the --no-legend option, but with Systemd 246 this no
longer happens. As the mount unit names no longer start in the first
character of the line no units are masked. Instead the Unicode Black
Circle character, UTF-8 byte sequence E2 97 8F, is found at the start of
highlighted lines which results in this error:
Unit \xe2\x97\x8f.service does not exist, proceeding anyway.
Fix by adding the --plain option to suppress the optional Black Circle
in the systemctl output. Confirmed this option is available in the
oldest supported distributions with Systemd.
RedHat / CentOS 7 Systemd 219 systemctl has --plain option.
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Systemd 229 systemctl has --plain option.
Closes#129 - Unit \xe2\x97\x8f.service does not exist, proceeding
anyway
Mike Fleetwood