Re: [oneSIS-users] oneSIS local disk partitioning issue with sfdisk

[Josh E. <jj...@gm...>]

Thank you for the patch.  It looks like an approach that should be
compatible with old and new output from sfdisk.  I've added it into SVN.

-JE


On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 7:37 AM, Kaizaad Bilimorya <ka...@sh...>
wrote:

> Hello,
>
> As indicated in this thread:
>
> https://sourceforge.net/p/onesis/mailman/message/34854019/
>
> we ran into an issue with oneSIS's ability to partition local disks
> because of changes in the output of newer versions of "sfdisk" (not sure
> what version this change occurred in).
>
> On a new disk (or a disk without a MBR) sfdisk use to report:
>
> Old situation:
> No partitions found
>
>
> but now newer versions of sfdisk just having a blank line:
>
> Old situation:
>
>
> I adjusted the perl regular expression used in oneSIS.pm (see attached
> patch) that checks this from:
>
> $before =~ s/(?:.*\n)+Old situation:(?:.*\n)+?((?:\/dev.*\n)+|No
> partitions found)(?:.*\n)+/$1/;
>
> to
>
> $before =~ s/(?:.*\n)+Old situation:(?:.*\n)+?((?:\/dev.*\n)+|(?:)|No
> partitions found)(?:.*\n)+/$1/;
>
>
> and it seems to work but I am not sure if this is the right approach wrt
> perl REs.
>
> thanks
> -k
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