[Libguestfs] libguestfs question - multiple partitions in the guest
Shawn Kennedy
Shawn.Kennedy at alcatel-lucent.com
Wed Aug 1 20:33:57 UTC 2012
> On Wed, Aug 01, 2012 at 08:54:01PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> > (1) You could look at tell-tale signs to see which root device has
> > most recently been mounted. Probably the simplest thing is to look at
> > the date of /var/log/messages in each potential root, and choose the
> > most recent one (since /var/log/messages is reliably and frequently
> > updated when a guest boots and runs).
>
> As in the attached program.
Neat!! I just looked at it - very nice!! We will give it a try
and report our findings! If it does work, we will have to convert
it to Python (preferred).
Thanks!
Shawn
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