Re: [Xen-devel] [SOLVED] Error looking up phy:sda5

[Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> > As usual, one finds the answer on their own right after asking a devel list.
> > /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/XenoUtil.py hardcoded the location 
> > of sfdisk to /sbin/sfdisk, when in fact slackware 9.1 places it at 
> > /usr/sbin/sfdisk. I just removed the /sbin/ bit and let my PATH take 
> > care of finding it.
> 
> Anyone want to knock up a patch that looks in both locations and
> return a more useful error message on failure? ;-)

Maybe check 'sfdisk', '/sbin/sfdisk', then '/usr/sbin/sfdisk'?

> I guess it would probably be cleaner if we just read this out of
> /proc/partitions rather than using sfdisk...

Unfortunately the proc file lists blocks rather than sectors, so you
can't do sector-accurate calculations based on it.

 -- Keir


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