Network Block Devices are not displayed in GParted as partitionable
devices. They do appear in /proc/partitions, are reported by
fdisk -l [1] and by ped_device_probe_all() from libparted. Therefore
include them.
Create NBD device for testing:
# truncate -s 1G /tmp/disk-1G.img
# nbd-server -C /dev/null 9000 /tmp/disk-1G.img
# nbd-client localhost 9000 /dev/nbd0
After creating a couple of partitions for testing, the contents of
/proc/partitions looks like this:
# egrep 'name|nbd' /proc/partitions
major minor #blocks name
43 0 1048576 nbd0
43 1 262144 nbd0p1
43 2 785408 nbd0p2
Listing all disks using fdisk:
# fdisk -l
...
Disk /dev/nbd0: 1 GiB, 1073741824 bytes, 2097152 sectors
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: 0x081b1cd1
Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type
/dev/nbd0p1 2048 526335 524288 256M 83 Linux
/dev/nbd0p2 526336 2097151 1570816 767M 83 Linux
Temporarily apply this patch to GParted so that it ignores the devices it
currently selects from /proc/partitions to use what get_device_probe_all()
reports. GParted shows NBDs.
$ git diff --unified=1
diff --git a/src/GParted_Core.cc b/src/GParted_Core.cc
index 1629f94f..abea7a0b 100644
--- a/src/GParted_Core.cc
+++ b/src/GParted_Core.cc
@@ -172,3 +172,3 @@ void GParted_Core::set_devices_thread( std::vector<Device> * pdevices )
//try to find all available devices if devices exist in /proc/partitions
- std::vector<Glib::ustring> temp_devices = Proc_Partitions_Info::get_device_paths();
+ std::vector<Glib::ustring> temp_devices;
if ( ! temp_devices .empty() )
Tidy-up NBD device:
# nbd-client -d /dev/ndb0
# killall nbd-server
# rm /tmp/disk-1G.img
[1] man fdisk
"-l, --list
List the partition tables for the specified devices and then
exit. If no devices are given, the devices mentioned in
/proc/partitions (if this file exists) are used.
"
Closes#247 - GParted does not list NBD (Network Block Device) devices
in the GUI
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