There is wishlist item from 2001 in Debian bug tracking system a request
for SIZE to be added to the displayed columns. This is _very_ good feature
which helps to calculate correct sizes (start, end). Please consider adding
following patch (or similar) to future parted releases.
Jari
P.s.
I've CC'd QA, because this situation is too common in Debian's package bug
listings. What's the purpose of QA if there are years old items that nobody
cares to submit forward or act upon on? Shame on you - parted maintainer
team:
How closely do you work with your upstream software author?
http://blog.andrew.net.au/2005/02/25#upstream
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http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=109613
Package: parted
Version: 1.4.17-1
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
Wouldn't it be nice if there is a 'Size' column on 'print' output?
Example:
(parted) p
Disk geometry for /dev/hda: 0.000-14324.625 megabytes
Disk label type: msdos
Minor Start End Size Type Filesystem Flags
1 0.031 298.081 298.050 primary FAT boot
2 298.081 8032.500 7734.418 extended
5 298.112 3294.580 2996.468 logical ntfs
6 3294.611 4094.692 800.081 logical ext2
7 4094.723 6142.038 2047.315 logical ext2
8 6142.069 8032.500 1890.430 logical ext2
3 8032.500 8158.007 125.507 primary linux-swap
4 8158.008 14323.579 6165.571 primary ext2
(parted)
here's the patch of parted/parted.c
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--- parted.c-origWed Aug 22 12:24:25 2001
+++ parted.cWed Aug 22 13:45:07 2001
@@ -717,7 +717,7 @@
has_name = ped_disk_type_check_feature (disk->type,
PED_DISK_TYPE_PARTITION_NAME);
-printf (_("Minor Start End "));
+printf (_("Minor Start End Size "));
if (has_extended)
printf (_("Type "));
printf (_("Filesystem "));
@@ -736,9 +736,11 @@
printf ("%-5d ", part->num);
-printf ("%10.3f %10.3f ",
+printf ("%10.3f %10.3f %10.3f ",
(int) part->geom.start * 1.0 / MEGABYTE_SECTORS,
-(int) part->geom.end * 1.0 / MEGABYTE_SECTORS);
+(int) part->geom.end * 1.0 / MEGABYTE_SECTORS,
+(int) (part->geom.end - part->geom.start)*1.0
+/ MEGABYTE_SECTORS);
if (has_extended)
printf ("%-9s ",
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