pali authored Sep 02, 2017 and Mike Fleetwood committed Sep 12, 2017

Naming a file system image file on the command line is shown by GParted
as unknown.

    $ truncate -s 100M /tmp/fat.img
    $ mkfs.vfat /tmp/fat.img
    $ sudo ./gpartedbin /tmp/fat.img

Currently the FS_Info cache is loaded for all devices reported by
blkid (plus all whole disk devices identified from /proc/partitions even
if blkid reports nothing).  However file system images named on the
command line are not queried so GParted can't identify them.

Fix by ensuring that the FS_Info blkid cache is loaded for all named
devices, including named file system image files.

Note that Mount_Info::load_cache() depends on the contents of the
FS_Info cache to lookup UUID= and LABEL= device names from /etc/fstab.
However only file systems in block devices can be mounted like this, and
never file system image files, so the fact that the cache may be
extended afterwards by FS_Info::load_cache_for_paths() does not matter.

History

Prior to version 0.22.0, when unpartitioned drive support was added,
GParted could recognise some file system image files using loop
partition handling in libparted.  However libparted before version 3.2
reported the loop partition name as the whole disk device name appended
with "1" so all the query commands were provided a non-existent name to
use.  Therefore no file system usage or the label was displayed.

Bug 787181 - Fix detection of file system images