Hi,
I was expecting the command "parted /dev/sda print 1" to display
information just on the first partition of /dev/sda. Instead it exits
without printing anything.
This expected behaviour was implied (to me) by the NUMBER option in the
--help message below:
# ./parted --help
...
print [devices|free|list,all|NUMBER] display the partition table,
available devices, free space, all found partitions, or a
particular
partition
...
This parted was built from a very recent checkout:
# ./parted --version
parted (GNU parted) 3.2.30-388b
...
Build machine is Debian 8.2 x86_64.
Note that "./parted print /dev/sda" works fine, printing all partitions.
# ./parted /dev/sda print 1
#
# ./parted /dev/sda print
Model: ATA ST320LT020-9YG14 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 320GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos
Disk Flags:
Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
1 1049kB 211MB 210MB primary ntfs boot
2 211MB 86.1GB 85.9GB primary ntfs
3 86.1GB 107GB 21.0GB primary ntfs diag
4 107GB 320GB 213GB extended
5 107GB 129GB 21.5GB logical ntfs
6 129GB 129GB 537MB logical ext4
7 129GB 320GB 191GB logical lvm
(Incidentally, my use case is that I need a simple command to test
whether there are any partitions already on a device, and just return a
yes or no.)
I'd be interested to know if this print problem is:
1. A bug in parted.
2. Something incorrect or unclear in the --help output.
3. My misunderstanding.
Thanks.
Yours,
Gareth
