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+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #980337 +++

Description of problem:
disk-format does not give an error when the file is inexistent


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
libguestfs-1.20.9-6.el6.x86_64


How reproducible:
100%


Steps to Reproduce:
[root@]# guestfish -N fs mount /dev/sda1 / : list-partitions : disk-format /dev/sda2 : disk-format /dev/sda3
/dev/sda1
raw
libguestfs: error: realpath: No such file or directory



Actual results:
disk-format /dev/sda2 , returns "raw"


Expected results:
"disk-format /dev/sda2" should give a error message as "disk-format /dev/sda3"


Additional info:
also effect "disk-virtual-size"

Let's reuse this bug to fix the somewhat related problem:

$ guestfish disk-format /etc/nosuchfile
libguestfs: error: qemu-img info: JSON parse error: parse error: premature EOF
                                       
                     (right here) ------^

libguestfs: error: qemu-img info: /etc/nosuchfile: qemu-img info exited with error status 1.
To see full error messages you may need to enable debugging.
See http://libguestfs.org/guestfs-faq.1.html#debugging-libguestfs

Fixed upstream in:

https://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs/commit/aecb5f4b33107935191099dbd5559113f59ee51c
https://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs/commit/d50cb7bbb4cc18f69ea1425e9f5cee9685825f95
https://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs/commit/28e08776824dd3152638e647259c2f4701a0a577

and the last one is a regression test:

https://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs/commit/2311fb0632a64cfa2bab8bf65c82ffaa042d619e

Verified with libguestfs-1.22.6-16.el7.x86_64

# guestfish disk-format /etc/nosuchfile
libguestfs: error: disk info: /etc/nosuchfile: No such file or directory

It gives a correct error message, change the status to verified

This request was resolved in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.0.

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