Re: parted-1.9.0 -- comments and patches

[Peter Breitenlohner]

On Fri, 31 Jul 2009, Joel Granados wrote:

> You must be root and you should have done:
> <snip>
> git clone git://git.debian.org/git/parted/parted.git
> cd parted
> git branch next --track origin/next
> ./bootstrap

Hi Joel,

I have done this as me (i.e., peb not root), followed by
        ./configure --prefix/tmp --disable-device-mapper; make
because we don't have libdevmapper (neither need nor want it).

As a consequence I got /tmp/bin/{disk,label} and /tmp/sbin/part{ed,probe}

> Can you please paste the output of the following set of commands:
>
> <snip>
> dd if=/dev/zero of=testfile bs=512c count=100
> echo n | sudo /usr/local/sbin/parted  ---pretend-input-tty testfile "mklabel gpt 
> mkpart pirmary ext3 1 -1"
> </snip>

Then, as root:
        dd if=/dev/zero of=testfile bs=512c count=100
100+0 records in
100+0 records out
51200 bytes (51 kB) copied, 0.000194 s, 264 MB/s
        echo n | /tmp/sbin/parted  ---pretend-input-tty testfile \
        "mklabel gpt mkpart pirmary ext3 1 -1"
Error: Can't have the end before the start!

Hope that helps

Regards
Peter