Re: parted-1.9.0 -- comments and patches

[Joel Granados]

Did you see Jim's answer?
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
> 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"

This should be primary not pirmary.
Can you pls try again.

>> </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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