Hello Michael, On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 10:43:16AM -0500, Michael Reed wrote: > > Please also note that -0 is not valid because sectors start to count from 0. > > What, no one's compliment math? :) Sorry ;)
> When doing a mkpart on a freshly labeled disk, I'd sure like to see it > suggest a starting location for the partition, i.e., first available valid > value > for the current unit. I don't know where the partition table ends and > the first available sector lies for all the partition types. Okay. > Some (0,-1) test case failures. > The last two could likely be > resolved by offering a suggestion for starting sector. Yes, this is a known issue. I think I'm going to look into it, but definitely not prior to next week, as I am very low on time at the moment. > (parted) mklabel gpt > (parted) print > Disk geometry for /dev/sdx: 0s - 71687371s > Disk label type: gpt > Number Start End Size File system Name Flags > > (parted) unit B > (parted) mkpart > Partition type? [primary]? > File system type? [ext2]? > Start? 0 > End? -1 > Error: The location -1 is outside of the device /dev/sdx. Does this only happen with gpt labels? > Using units GB, mkpart works but wastes quite a bit > of space at the end of the disk. Is this really the way you > want it to work, leaving almost a GB of unused space at the end of > the disk? I'd consider changing the semantics of "-1" > to be "last available sector relative to the starting sector > regardless of unit in effect". This means that if you're trying > to fill a hole in the disk, all you have to do is get the starting > location correct and -1 will find the end. Anyway, something to think > about. Special semantics for ``-1''? This introduces an inconsistency. You can always use ``-1s''. > I'd still like to see resize of a partition with no filesystem. > (Patch previously submitted to maintainer(s).) > > And, existent is still misspelled in various test scripts. > (Patch previously submitted to maintainer(s).) When did you send these? I don't think I've received anything like that. Leslie -- PGP-KID: 0x52D70289
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