Re: parted-1.9.0 -- comments and patches

[Joel Granados]

On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 04:59:06PM +0200, Peter Breitenlohner wrote:
> 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

Aha, this might be due to the fact that you dont use dm.  Did you test
your patch.  Does it really fix the fact that that the test does not
PASS.  judging by your output, adding a "n" to the end of the string
will not make it succeed.

> 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

-- 
Joel Andres Granados
Brno, Czech Republic, Red Hat.

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