From 5a9269c019f9cb0b2d54444501beb74663670693 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2019 13:42:22 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 26/26] partx: document -d vs. --nr and fix test
The commit ab025087f91b66ee8e23a16bc49eb0d9bd421d65 has disabled error
message, but unfortunately it keeps wrong return code. This has been fixed
by commit 53ae7d60cfeacd4e87bfe6fcc015b58b78ef4555.
This commit add hit about it to docs and fix regression test too.
Addresses: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1739179
Upstream: http://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/commit/5200aa99d27e084b514e8b035db32f39b49562a3
Signed-off-by: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
---
disk-utils/partx.8 | 5 ++++-
tests/ts/partx/partx | 9 +++++++--
2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/disk-utils/partx.8 b/disk-utils/partx.8
index af7313cb9..c6bbbae42 100644
--- a/disk-utils/partx.8
+++ b/disk-utils/partx.8
@@ -53,7 +53,10 @@ Add the specified partitions, or read the disk and add all partitions.
Print the SIZE column in bytes rather than in human-readable format.
.TP
.BR \-d , " \-\-delete"
-Delete the specified partitions or all partitions.
+Delete the specified partitions or all partitions. It is not error to
+remove non-existing partitions, so this option is possible to use together with
+large \fB\-\-nr\fR ranges without care about the current partitions set on
+the device.
.TP
.BR \-g , " \-\-noheadings"
Do not print a header line with \fB\-\-show\fR or \fB\-\-raw\fR.
diff --git a/tests/ts/partx/partx b/tests/ts/partx/partx
index b21dc44ef..84c286a94 100755
--- a/tests/ts/partx/partx
+++ b/tests/ts/partx/partx
@@ -137,9 +137,14 @@ udevadm settle
ts_init_subtest "delete-non-existent"
#attempt to remove it again
{
+ # remove non-existing partitions (ENXIO) is not error
+ #
+ # see ab025087f91b66ee8e23a16bc49eb0d9bd421d65 and
+ # 53ae7d60cfeacd4e87bfe6fcc015b58b78ef4555
+ #
$TS_CMD_PARTX -d --nr $PARTS $TS_DEVICE &&
- echo "partx failed: removed non-existing partition" ||
- echo "partx: OK"
+ echo "partx: OK" ||
+ echo "partx failed: removed non-existing partition"
} >$TS_OUTPUT 2>&1
ts_finalize_subtest
--
2.21.0