Hi, I'm using GNU parted 3.2 running on Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS. The machine is an Amazon EC2 instance (ie a virtual server) launched from Ubuntu's official 16.04 Amazon machine image (AMI).
I'm trying to use parted to add a name to a disk partition. I'm not sure if it's of note, but this is a virtual disk attached to my EC2 instance (an "EBS volume" in Amazon terms). The disk in question is device "/dev/xvdb". I've already created the partition with: parted /dev/xvdb mklabel gpt parted /dev/xvdb mkpart primary ext4 0% 100% --align=optimal mkfs.ext4 -L 'Some other label' /dev/xvdb1 At this stage, "parted /dev/xvdb print" outputs: parted /dev/xvdb print Model: Xen Virtual Block Device (xvd) Disk /dev/xvdb: 5369MB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B Partition Table: gpt Disk Flags: Number Start End Size File system Name Flags 1 1049kB 5368MB 5367MB ext4 primary If I then try to add to partition 1 a name which contains spaces using quotes, parted either prints its usage message or interactively prompts for the partition number and name. However, in either case parted seems to have applied the first word name given. Examples: ------------------------------------------------------ $ sudo parted /dev/xvdb name 1 'Secret Documents' Usage: parted [OPTION]... [DEVICE [COMMAND [PARAMETERS]...]...] Apply COMMANDs with PARAMETERS to DEVICE. If no COMMAND(s) are given, run in interactive mode. OPTIONs: ---x--- (more of the usage message removed) version display the version number and copyright information of GNU Parted Report bugs to bug-parted@gnu.org $ sudo parted /dev/xvdb print Model: Xen Virtual Block Device (xvd) Disk /dev/xvdb: 5369MB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B Partition Table: gpt Disk Flags: Number Start End Size File system Name Flags 1 1049kB 5368MB 5367MB ext4 Secret ------------------------------------------------------ $ sudo parted /dev/xvdb name 1 'My Name' Partition number? ^C Error: Expecting a partition number. $ sudo parted /dev/xvdb print Model: Xen Virtual Block Device (xvd) Disk /dev/xvdb: 5369MB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B Partition Table: gpt Disk Flags: Number Start End Size File system Name Flags 1 1049kB 5368MB 5367MB ext4 My ------------------------------------------------------ The first example is the same as that given in the documentation at https://www.gnu.org/software/parted/manual/html_node/name.html Apologies if I'm misunderstanding the documentation, if this is a known bug, or if this is something introduced upstream. Regards, Nathan Craike
