Hi, Mathieu Othacehe <othac...@gnu.org> skribis:
>> Does Parted provide a way to tell whether a storage device is read-only? >> That would be ideal. > > Yes it does, but this is not enough for a reliable installation device > detection. In Qemu the installation device is /dev/sr0 that is > reported as read-only by parted. > > Using real hardware, and an installation device on an USB drive, the > installation device is /dev/sd* and is not reported as read-only by > parted. I see. > However, I found a better way to detect the installation device, that > relies on reading the root partition UUID from the command line. > > I combined the read-only parted method and the UUID based installation > device detection in e12be802e02b3345a753e7ec1287852a7337a0a5. This seems > to work well for all my machines, plus for your VM use case. That’s clever. Thanks! Ludo’.
