Re: more parted bugs

[Andrew Clausen]

Ethan Benson wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> just found a nasty bug in parted, it creates too many Apple_Free
> partitions, actually this could be a more generic problem that its
> currently impossible to create perfectly contigious partitions with
> parted.  (you need my mkpart primary ext2 - 50 trick for that)
> 
> this is bad because when i created 9 partitions i ended up with 17,
> which overflows the limits of scsi so the kernel assigned the last two
> to /dev/sdb and /dev/sdb1 !
> 
> so i guess making perfectly contigious partition tables is more
> important then just being a pedant afterall ;-)

Another option is to "round" new partitions to eliminate free space regions 
less than,
say, 50k.  Sound reasonable?

Basically, I don't like the idea of the "- 50" trick being the ONLY way to do 
it Right.
(And I'd rather not add it right now... it complicates things in the 
implementation,
and I'd like to get 1.4.0 out soon)

Andrew Clausen