[PATCH 1/1] extendpart: A new command line to extend an existing partition

[Vivek Goyal]

This is along the lines of addpart and delpart to modify in kernel partition
table and does not touch the ondisk data structures.

Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 partx/Makefile.am  |    2 +-
 partx/extendpart.c |   29 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 partx/partx.h      |   20 ++++++++++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 50 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 partx/extendpart.c

diff --git a/partx/Makefile.am b/partx/Makefile.am
index 6a72942..f84126d 100644
--- a/partx/Makefile.am
+++ b/partx/Makefile.am
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 include $(top_srcdir)/config/include-Makefile.am
 
-usrsbin_exec_PROGRAMS = addpart delpart
+usrsbin_exec_PROGRAMS = addpart delpart extendpart
 dist_man_MANS = addpart.8 delpart.8
 
 usrsbin_exec_PROGRAMS += partx
diff --git a/partx/extendpart.c b/partx/extendpart.c
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a9577c2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/partx/extendpart.c
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+#include <stdio.h>
+#include <stdlib.h>
+#include <fcntl.h>
+
+#include "partx.h"
+
+int
+main(int argc, char **argv)
+{
+	int fd;
+
+	if (argc != 4) {
+		fprintf(stderr,
+			"usage: %s diskdevice partitionnr size\n",
+			argv[0]);
+		exit(1);
+	}
+	if ((fd = open(argv[1], O_RDONLY)) < 0) {
+		perror(argv[1]);
+		exit(1);
+	}
+
+	if (partx_extend_partition(fd, atoi(argv[2]), atoll(argv[3]))) {
+		perror("BLKPG");
+		exit(1);
+	}
+
+	return 0;
+}
diff --git a/partx/partx.h b/partx/partx.h
index b40fa8f..1acbff9 100644
--- a/partx/partx.h
+++ b/partx/partx.h
@@ -41,4 +41,24 @@ static inline int partx_add_partition(int fd, int partno,
 	return ioctl(fd, BLKPG, &a);
 }
 
+static inline int partx_extend_partition(int fd, int partno,
+				unsigned long size)
+{
+	struct blkpg_ioctl_arg a;
+	struct blkpg_partition p;
+
+	p.pno = partno;
+	/* p.start is unused for extend operation */
+	p.start = 0;
+	p.length = size << 9;
+	p.devname[0] = 0;
+	p.volname[0] = 0;
+	a.op = BLKPG_EXTEND_PARTITION;
+	a.flags = 0;
+	a.datalen = sizeof(p);
+	a.data = &p;
+
+	return ioctl(fd, BLKPG, &a);
+}
+
 #endif /*  UTIL_LINUX_PARTX_H */
-- 
1.7.6

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