[Gta04-owner] Errors in makesd script

[Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller]

Am 05.12.2011 um 15:21 schrieb Jens Seidel:

> 2011/12/5 Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller <hns at goldelico.com>:
>> Am 05.12.2011 um 01:38 schrieb Jens Seidel:
>>> I tried the makesd script from
>>> download.goldelico.com/gta04/20111116-GTA04A3-HW-Tester/
>>> and need the following changes:
>>> 
>>> Let's change the language to English before searching for Disk in the
>>> fdisk output, OK? Otherwise:
>>> I get "#expr: Syntaxfehler"
> 
>> Maybe, we should export it right at the beginning of the script
>> for all commands.
> 
> Yes, I also thought about it. But it doesn't harm to get the output in
> the current locale (and there is partly a lot output). The output is
> parsed only a single time where prepanding with
> LC_ALL=C LANGUAGE=C makes sense and doesn't hurt.

Ok.

> 
>>> Before creating the filesystem with mkfs.vfat (after partitioning with
>>> sfdisk) I miss a call of
>>> /sbin/partprobe $DRIVE
>>> 
>>> Otherwise the old partition layout is still used:
>>> "Successfully wrote the new partition table
>>> 
>>> Re-reading the partition table ...
>>> BLKRRPART: Device or resource busy
>>> The command to re-read the partition table failed.
>>> Run partprobe(8), kpartx(8) or reboot your system now,
>>> before using mkfs"
>> 
>> Hm. Which distro are you using? The one on
>> which this script was developed (eeePC with Xandros)
>> doesn't know (and need?) such a command.
> 
> Maybe you can use kpartx instead. I switched some weeks ago to Ubuntu
> 11.10 with a self compiled kernel 3.0.1. Had also never trouble with
> partitioning in the past but maybe a device service (some udev
> client?) is active and avoids rereading the partition table?

Maybe they introduced a new caching mechanism recently and
98% of the older systems don't know about...

Well, we can easily do [ -x /sbin/partprobe ] && /sbin/partprobe $DRIVE

> 
> Jens
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