Using parted

2009-08-06 Thread Mark Elkins
'Parted newbie' request. Recently had to use 'parted' - as I share a disk in my Apple MacBook Pro with a bootable linux partition -and- (another machine) put together a Raid-5 device with six Terabyte drives and wanted a file system of about five terabytes. I'm old school (fdisk). I really miss

Re: [parted-devel] [PATCH] Fall back to not using O_DIRECT

2009-08-06 Thread Jim Meyering
Colin Watson wrote: > On Fri, Aug 08, 2008 at 04:00:20PM +0200, Jim Meyering wrote: >> Olaf Hering wrote: >> > On Wed, Aug 06, Jim Meyering wrote: >> >> Can I expect you to adjust your patch to detect >> >> fsync and close failures? >> > >> > How should it handle the failures? >> > parted cant do