[Libguestfs] [PATCH nbdkit v3 2/5] tests: Implement a better nbdkit-partition-filter test.

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 09:55:00AM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> 
> Indeed this test fails:
> 
> test dos 2 1 <<'EOF'
> disk2: start=1024 size=1023 type=L
> EOF
> 
> with the error "MBR partition 2 not found".

In fact this is because sfdisk interprets "type=L" silently as type=0.
You can't use the short codes instead of type bytes here.  Also our
partition filter ignores any partitions with type=0 (should it?).
In any case if I use a proper type byte it works fine.

I'll add the new test anyway.

Rich.

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