Re: [parted-devel] Extended partitions

2006-11-11 Thread Otavio Salvador
"Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > > Would you like to add support for extended partitions? This might be >> > >non-trivial. > >> > Would like to do it. :-) > >> It would be nice if you could keep us posted about your progress >> there. > > Well I would not try it in the nex

Re: [parted-devel] Extended partitions

2006-11-11 Thread Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray
> > Would you like to add support for extended partitions? This might be > >non-trivial. > Would like to do it. :-) It would be nice if you could keep us posted about your progress there. Well I would not try it in the next one week. I would rather polish the suspended partition support

Re: [parted-devel] Extended partitions

2006-11-11 Thread leslie . polzer
On Sat, Nov 11, 2006 at 05:55:38PM +, Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray wrote: > > Would you like to add support for extended partitions? This might be > >non-trivial. > > Would like to do it. :-) I'm not stopping you :) It would be nice if you could keep us posted about your progress there. Leslie

Re: [parted-devel] Extended partitions

2006-11-11 Thread Otavio Salvador
"Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Would you like to add support for extended partitions? >> This might be non-trivial. > > Would like to do it. :-) Braches, branches, branches! ;-) -- O T A V I OS A L V A D O R - E-ma

Re: [parted-devel] Extended partitions

2006-11-11 Thread Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray
Would you like to add support for extended partitions? This might be non-trivial. Would like to do it. :-) Happy hacking, Debarshi -- "India is not, as people keep calling it, an underdeveloped country, but rather a developed nation in an advanced state of decay." --Shashi Tharoor _

Re: [parted-devel] Extended partitions

2006-11-11 Thread leslie . polzer
On Sat, Nov 11, 2006 at 11:37:10AM +, Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray wrote: > >You are not supposed to select a partition, select is just for disks > >(and loop devices). > > > >Parted allowing you to execute select on an extended partition number > >is the problem... > > But one can successfully execut

Re: [parted-devel] Extended partitions

2006-11-11 Thread Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray
You are not supposed to select a partition, select is just for disks (and loop devices). Parted allowing you to execute select on an extended partition number is the problem... But one can successfully execute 'select' followed by 'print' on primary partitions. eg., I took the image of a swap p

Re: [parted-devel] Extended partitions

2006-11-11 Thread leslie . polzer
On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 11:36:13PM +, Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray wrote: > (parted) select /dev/hda4 Using /dev/hda4 (parted) print Error: Can't > have a partition outside the disk! (parted) > > Is this how it is supposed to be, or should it be treated as a bug? You are not supposed to select a parti