Package: parted
Version: 3.2-18
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
* What led up to the situation?
Trying to create partition via 'mkpart' with negative START value
without specyfying optional FS-TYPE.
* What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
ineffective)?
parted -a none -s -- /dev/vda mkpart flags_backup -4M -6177s
or with interactive mode:
(parted) mkpart flags_backup -4M -6177s
* What was the outcome of this action?
Partition is not created with failure message:
parted: invalid token: -4M
Error: Expecting a file system type.
* What outcome did you expect instead?
Partition is created.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.1
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 4.9.57-std-def-alt1.1 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=C.UTF-8
(charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages parted depends on:
ii libc6 2.24-11+deb9u1
ii libparted2 3.2-18
ii libreadline7 7.0-3
ii libtinfo5 6.0+20161126-1
parted recommends no packages.
Versions of packages parted suggests:
pn parted-doc <none>
-- no debconf information
