Re: Parted 1.2.11 bugs

[Andrew Clausen]

Sux0r Dani San wrote:
> 
>  Hi all,
> 
>        Just had a look at 1.2.11 version, I have felta bit
> scared:
> 
> - Bug rebirth : pressing ENTER key after initializing
> parted frontend causes a core dump (again, i think it had
> been fixed)

Weird.  I can't reproduce the bug.  Can you send in a back trace?
You can do this (if you compiled with debug info, i.e.:
CFLAGS="-O0 -g" ./configure && make clean && make) with:

        $ libtool gdb parted core
        (gdb) bt
 
> - Creating an empty partition of ext2 or FAT type makes no
> sense: Parted creates a linux-swap one.

Hehe.  This is probably not the case... parted's "print" command displays
the file system it detected, not the "partition type".  I guess this is
somewhat confusing, but partition types ARE confusing...

/me shudders

> - Also, creating (in fact, trying to create) an empty FAT
> partition inside an extended partition actually makes a
> nice linux-swap partition appear inside the extended one.

yep.  same thing.  It actually has the FAT partition type (check with fdisk!),
but parted detects the linux-swap on the actual partition...

Thanks,
Andrew Clausen