Otavio Salvador <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>>         mkpartfs ext2 2 10 would erroneously report "file system too small"
>>         for some small (single-group) partitions.  It would also fail to
>>         report "file system too small" in some cases, and instead continue
>>         on to into inode-allocation code where it'd report "File system 
>> full!"
>>         * libparted/fs/ext2/ext2_mkfs.c (compute_block_counts): New function,
>>         factored out of...
>>         (ext2_mkfs): ...here.  Call compute_block_counts rather than
>>         open-coded it.  When decrementing numblocks, call 
>> compute_block_counts
>>         again, to recompute all of the derived values.
>>         Require at least 14 free blocks in a 16-inode-per-group partition.
>>         * tests/t1500-small-ext2.sh: New file.  Test for the above.
>>         * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add t1500-small-ext2.sh.
>
> All this looks good but I'd like to ask if you might try to write a

Thanks for the quick feedback.

> test also on the library unittesting so we can know if the library
> isn't broken again too...
>
> Can you try?

That would not be a good way to spend my limited time.

Besides, why bother?
The above test exercises the affected code already, and since no one
will be changing the public command-line interface any time soon,
it should be more than enough to keep the bug from resurfacing.

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