Re: bug in parted 1.2.9

[Andrew Clausen]

szh wrote:
>   First in the life I tried  parted , and what I see :
>   "You found a bug in GNU Parted." :))  Anyway much better than a destroyed 
> partition :).

Hehe :-)

> (parted) resize 7 6038 7890
> You found a bug in GNU Parted.  Please email a bug report to address@hidden 
> containing the version (1.2.9), and the following message:
> Assertion (part->geom.end <= ext_part->geom.end) at disk_dos.c:1005 in 
> function
> msdos_align_partition() failed.
> Ignore Cancel ?

I (hopefully) fixed it properly in 1.2.10-pre2.  You can get it from:

        ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/parted/devel/parted-1.2.10-pre2.tar.gz
 
> WHY there is no option to use CYLINDERS for "start" and "end" parameters of 
> resize ??
> instead of megabytes ???

I intend to add this later... it's just not a high priority now.

Thanks!
Andrew Clausen