Re: Bug#136730: parted loops endless

[Timshel Knoll]

reopen 136730
retitle 136730 parted exception options difficult to understand
severity 136730 wishlist
forwarded 136730 address@hidden
thanks

Andrew,

Another request to simplify the exception options -  I know there are
NLS issues with this :-/

Cheers,

Timshel

On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 09:49:31AM +0100, Goswin Brederlow wrote:
> Timshel Knoll <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 08:01:08AM +0100, Goswin Brederlow wrote:
> > > Package: parted
> > > Version: 1.4.24-1
> > > Severity: normal
> > > 
> > > This looked like it should work but just keeps asking:
> > > 
> > > address@hidden:~# parted -i /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 check 
> > > Warning: Device /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 is neither a SCSI 
> > > nor
> > > IDE drive.
> > > Ignore Cancel ? n
> > > Ignore Cancel ? 
> > > Ignore Cancel ? y
> > > Ignore Cancel ? n
> > > Ignore Cancel ? n
> > 
> > Try 'i' for ignore or 'c' for cancel ... I'm closing this since it's not
> > a "bug", just a usage problem.
> 
> Ah that ment to be the possible options for the warning.
> 
> Could you rephrace that question to something more comon, like:
> 
> Warning: bla blubber  [ignore, Cancel]?   (with C meaning its the default).
> 
> That would make this a wishlist bug.
> 
> > It's probably ignoring SIGINT - this is not a bug - but rather a
> > "feature", consider the bad stuff that would happen if you could kill
> > parted half way through a "resize" operation :-/
> 
> But I'm not half way through. :)
> 
> MfG
>         Goswin
> 

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