[debbugs-tracker] bug#27690: closed ([PATCH] build: Allow mounting of entire disks.)

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> [PATCH] build: Allow mounting of entire disks.
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> Fri, 14 Jul 2017 10:32:15 +0200
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> * gnu/build/file-systems.scm (disk-partitions): Also return entire drives.
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>  gnu/build/file-systems.scm | 13 ++++++++-----
>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
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> diff --git a/gnu/build/file-systems.scm b/gnu/build/file-systems.scm
> index b6930497d..462ed9b7f 100644
> --- a/gnu/build/file-systems.scm
> +++ b/gnu/build/file-systems.scm
> @@ -377,11 +377,14 @@ not valid header was found."
>      (string-ref str (- (string-length str) 1)))
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>    (define (partition? name major minor)
> -    ;; Select device names that end in a digit, like libblkid's 'probe_all'
> -    ;; function does.  Checking for "/sys/dev/block/MAJOR:MINOR/partition"
> -    ;; doesn't work for partitions coming from mapped devices.
> -    (and (char-set-contains? char-set:digit (last-character name))
> -         (> major 2)))                      ;ignore RAM disks and floppy disks
> +    ;; grub-mkrescue does some funny things for EFI support which
> +    ;; makes it a lot more difficult than one would expect to support
> +    ;; booting an ISO-9660 image from an USB flash drive.
> +    ;; For example there's a buggy (too small) hidden partition in it
> +    ;; which Linux rightfully refuses to mount.
> +    ;; In any case, partition tables are supposed to be optional so
> +    ;; here we allow checking entire disks for file systems, too.
> +    (> major 2))                      ;ignore RAM disks and floppy disks
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>    (call-with-input-file "/proc/partitions"
>      (lambda (port)
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> This was pushed as 9833bcfc08ef009b9e8b4398baa481ef65c80ad7, closing!
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