1 Topic by psychok9 (edited by psychok9 2009-02-14 00:22:07)

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Topic: Compile GParted with dmraid support?

I've installed GParted from the Jaunty repository... and it see & work on the raid partition of dmraid driver (fakeraid).
Today I've tried to compile gparted 0.4.3 source for enable ext4 support, and I'm disappointed: this version don't found my boot/dmraid hard disk and partitions... How can I insert support on gparted? With 0.3.9 but from Ubuntu repository work flawlessy (without ext4 support).
libdmraid-dev is installed.

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Re: Compile GParted with dmraid support?

There is a work around is to start gparted and pass the device name on the command line.
E.g.,
     gparted /dev/mapper/your-dmraid-device

Please note that GParted, and the library libparted, do not properly support dmraid devices.  Part of the challenge is that changes to dmraid devices are communicated to the Linux kernel in a different way.

The version of GParted in Ubuntu has patches from Ubuntu that recognize /dev/mapper devices, but do not provide this needed kernel support.

See bug 317262 - gparted does not like /dev/mapper devices.