On Wed, 2007-07-11 at 11:50 -0600, Dax Kelson wrote: > Andrew & Richard, > > With older versions of parted the output of "print" was in megabytes > with no "human friendly" conversions and suffixes like MB or GB. > > In house we wrote a script around parted that automatically created a > new logical partition that started 1 megabyte after the last partition. > We use this in a troubleshooting class we teach. > > With older parted, I could take the output of "print" (displayed in > megabytes only), add megabytes to it and then use those numbers with > mkpartfs. > > Now I can no longer do that with the new parted print output that has > some numbers in MB and some in GB. I can't even convert from GB to MB > because the GB numbers are displayed with only one decimal place > precision. > > Please consider reverting the "human friendly" print output change, or > support a option to print (say, -m) that prints only megabyte values > (ala, the historical output style of 'print').
Thinking about this more, changing format and requiring a backwards compat flag that'll just produce errors in old versions is a bad change. I would suggest reverting the change in output, and instead add a "-h" option to print the human friendly output. Dax Kelson Guru Labs _______________________________________________ bug-parted mailing list bug-parted@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-parted
