[Libguestfs] [PATCH VERSION 5 FOR DISCUSSION ONLY] Generic partition creation interface.

** NOT TO BE PUSHED ** This doesn't quite work at the moment. All the tests pass, except: test_list_partitions_0 wipes the disk and creates a single partition covering the whole disk. However the test fails because it thinks the disk has 3 partitions. At the moment I have no idea why it would think this. Anyway, the patch has evolved further: (1) guestfs_set_part_name can be used to set the name of a partition. (2) In guestfs_part_disk, if GPT set the partition name to "p1". But in guestfs_part_add we still have the bug that the partition name is set to "primary" for GPT partition tables. At least this is now documented as a bug. (3) Work around an apparent bug in parted where it fails to do ioctl(BLKRRPART) [re-read the partition table], by catching this case and rereading the partition table ourselves. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones libguestfs lets you edit virtual machines. Supports shell scripting, bindings from many languages. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/libguestfs/ See what it can do: http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/libguestfs/recipes.html