Hi I cannot get negative numbers to work in command line mode:
# ./parted -v parted (GNU parted) 3.1 [...] # ./parted /dev/cciss/c0d2 mkpart primary 1GiB -1s /root/parted-3.1/parted/.libs/parted: invalid option -- '1' Usage: parted [-hlmsv] [-a<align>] [DEVICE [COMMAND [PARAMETERS]]...] # ./parted /dev/cciss/c0d2 mkpart primary 1GiB '-1s' /root/parted-3.1/parted/.libs/parted: invalid option -- '1' Usage: parted [-hlmsv] [-a<align>] [DEVICE [COMMAND [PARAMETERS]]...] # ./parted /dev/cciss/c0d2 mkpart primary 1GiB \-1s /root/parted-3.1/parted/.libs/parted: invalid option -- '1' Usage: parted [-hlmsv] [-a<align>] [DEVICE [COMMAND [PARAMETERS]]...] # ./parted /dev/cciss/c0d2 mkpart primary 1GiB --1s /root/parted-3.1/parted/.libs/parted: unrecognized option '--1s' Usage: parted [-hlmsv] [-a<align>] [DEVICE [COMMAND [PARAMETERS]]...] # ./parted /dev/cciss/c0d2 mkpart primary 1GiB End? -1s -1s Information: You may need to update /etc/fstab. # Any idea what I'm doing wrong? Or may I hereby report this as a a bug? ;) Thanks, Michael
