Re: [Libguestfs] [PATCH 2/2] sysprep: remove blkid tab in the guest

On Wed, May 09, 2012 at 06:08:55PM +0800, Wanlong Gao wrote: Good idea in principle, but you have to delete the file in a few more places: /var/run/blkid.tab /etc/blkid/blkid.tab /etc/blkid.tab # older debian /dev/.blkid.tab # newer debian AND! ... you have to check that the file you're going to remove isn't a symbolic link. Because at least on some versions of debian, /etc/blkid.tab is a symlink, and you *don't* want to remove it. There is a g#is_symlink function for checking if a path is a symlink: http://libguestfs.org/guestfs.3.html#guestfs_is_symlink Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com Fedora now supports 80 OCaml packages (the OPEN alternative to F#) http://cocan.org/getting_started_with_ocaml_on_red_hat_and_fedora