Re: right syntax?

[Andrew Clausen]

On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 07:34:20PM -0700, Erick Calder wrote:
> I've installed parted-1.2.8-2 on my RH7.0 system and need a little advice.

That's an old version.  The latest version is 1.4.18.

> need refreshing... the syntax for cp stated there is:
> 
>       cp [FROM-DEVICE] FROM-MINOR TO-MINOR
> 
> but this is no longer right.

No, you got that the other way around.  It isn't like that in 1.2.8,
but it has since changed.

> Also, I can't figure out how to create a new partition... what's wrong with
> my statement below?
> 
> # parted /dev/had
> (parted) mkpart "primary" 271.7 523.7

remove the quotes, and add a file system type.  eg:

        mkpart primary ext2 271.7 523.7

Andrew