Re: Bug#146607: parted: documentation and online help don't match actual capability (ext3)

[Timshel Knoll]

Hi Andrew,

I got this bug report ages ago, but never forwareded it to you, cause I
never really knew what to do with it. I'd suggest that this bug be taken
as a request to change the online help to show only implemented options
to the "help" message for parted commands.

For example, when a user types "help mkfs", only "ext2, fat, fat32,
linux-swap [and reiserfs]" should be listed as valid options for the
file system. (the [and reiserfs] in brackets as it should only be
printed if libreiserfs is found ...) It should be relatively trivial to
implement this, shouldn't it?

Cheers,

Timshel

On Fri, May 10, 2002 at 10:04:11PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote:
> Package: parted
> Version: 1.4.24-4
> Severity: normal
> 
> The man page and online help both suggest that ext3 is an option for 
> a filesystem type. However, when I use
> 
> mkpartfs primary ext3 15893 16193
> 
> I get the error
> 
> No implementation: support for creating ext3 file systems is not implemented 
> yet.
> 
> When I use 
> 
> mkpartfs primary ext3 15893 16193
> 
> I receive no error, however no filesystem is created at all.
> 
> -- System Information
> Debian Release: 3.0
> Architecture: powerpc
> Kernel: Linux debian 2.4.16-newpmac #1 Mon Jan 7 20:51:25 EST 2002 ppc
> Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C
> 
> Versions of packages parted depends on:
> ii  e2fsprogs                1.27-2          The EXT2 file system utilities 
> and
> ii  e2fsprogs [libuuid1]     1.27-2          The EXT2 file system utilities 
> and
> ii  libc6                    2.2.5-4         GNU C Library: Shared libraries 
> an
> ii  libncurses5              5.2.20020112a-7 Shared libraries for terminal 
> hand
> ii  libparted1.4             1.4.24-4        The GNU Parted disk partitioning 
> l
> ii  libreadline4             4.2a-5          GNU readline and history 
> libraries
> pn  libuuid1                                 Not found.

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