Re: new to parted

On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 07:12:35PM -0800, VomLehn, David wrote: > Hmm. It would be good to know what the partition table mathematics > parted uses actually are. There's more than one part involved in this. We have the constraint solver, providing the basic mathematical framework, which is used by

Re: new to parted

Dear François, On Fri, Jan 12, 2007 at 07:29:08PM +0100, François Patte wrote: > Why 8 ends at 15304,108 and 9 begins at 15304,140? 0,031 is missing! Parted automatically aligns partitions based on what it thinks is best (or, rather, necessary). The mathematics of partition tables are sometimes

Re: Problem with large volume

On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 04:35:22PM -, Chis (Ian Chisholm) wrote: > It looks to me as if the filesystem has replaced its gpt partition > label created originally by parted with a msdos partition label. > > Any suggestions You may try to use "mklabel gpt" on the disk and then use "rescue" to

Re: How to report problems

On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 06:13:56PM -0500, Jerome Henin wrote: > Which is the preferred way to report problems, this list or the > tracker below? http://parted.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/trac.cgi If you need immediate help, use the list. If it's a bug that needs to be fixed, use the tracker. Lesl

Re: parted-1.8.1 parse error gcc 2.95.3

On Wed, Dec 20, 2006 at 02:02:49PM +0100, Till Wimmer wrote: > i'd like to compile the latest parted version for a old linux wiht > glibc 2.2.5 and gcc 2.95.3, > > but i get a parse error: > > arch/linux.c: In function `init_dasd': 972: parse error before `*' > arch/linux.c:984: `arch_specific' un

Re: [bug-fdisk] GNU fdisk 0.9

On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 02:31:11PM -0500, Sadrul H Chowdhury wrote: > I am aware of the effort on GNU cfdisk. The functionality of cfdisk > is way more than what's there in gntparted right now. But I think > once the functionalities are added in gntparted, it will be more > user-friendly than cfdi

Re: Parted 1.7.1&1.8.0 giving error : SEGV_MAPERR(adress not mapped) on ARM plat

On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 06:23:04PM +, Kristoffer Ericson wrote: > is svn://svn.debian.org/parted/upstream/;module=trunk correct? No, you want to use http://git.debian.org/git/parted/parted.git as stated on the home page. Use 'git clone' to check out. Leslie -- gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.

GNU fdisk 0.9

I am very happy to announce the initial release of GNU fdisk. This release is numbered 0.9, marking its closeness to production stability while still emphasizing that it hasn't been tested by a large audience yet. Description === GNU fdisk aims to replace various UNIX operating systems'

Re: no up-to-date po files in 1.8.0

On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 01:11:18PM +0100, Benno Schulenberg wrote: > Please consider doing as tar, which pulls the po files from the > TP-site at moment of 'make dist'. I wasn't able to find the code for this in the tar distribution. Can you point me to it or provide a patch against Parted? Th

Re: GNU Parted 'Edge' Branch -- where is the repo?

On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 02:37:14PM +0100, Benno Schulenberg wrote: > Doing that gives me this: > > Invalid repository: http://viridian-project.de/darcs/parted > > darcs failed: Failed to download URL > http://viridian-project.de/darcs/parted/_darcs/inventory libcurl: > HTTP error (404?) >

Re: qtparted broken - kubuntu 6.10 install

On Sun, Dec 03, 2006 at 12:57:13PM -0500, William F. Dudley Jr. wrote: > Thanks, and I know I'm wasting my time, Bill Dudley Why do you think so? In response to your question, it's hard to say what's up without even knowing how your disk layout looks and what operation you attempted to execute.

Re: Repair a GPT

On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 10:21:51AM +0100, Gilles AURIC wrote: > Many thanks y partition is ok, I just want to repair the file system > but : > > #fsck mess up with the superblocks Restarting e2fsck from the > beginning... Group descriptors look bad... trying backup blocks... > fsck.ext2: Bad magic

Re: Problem 1.8.0 read images

On Sat, Dec 02, 2006 at 10:12:28PM +0100, Heiko Lehmann wrote: > I have a problem Parted 1.8.0 can not read images Parted 1.7.1 can . > read images Details see attachment . Do we happen to have any patches affecting the loop label for 1.8? Leslie -- gpg --k

Re: Repair a GPT

Hello Gilles, On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 09:04:07AM +0100, Gilles AURIC wrote: > Hi I have setup a GPT ext2 4TByte partition with parted it works > fine but after a powerfail I'm unable to repair the partition. How > can I repair the partition with > fsck ? fsck and Parted can only repair file syst

Re: [parted-devel] Extended partitions

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

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

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

Re: parted/d-i bug : vanishing print output, bug traced to table.c code.

On Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 06:53:58PM -0200, Otavio Salvador wrote: > More or less. Besides, it's the only one among the major players that has sensible package management (if we don't look at the creation of packages, which is as bad as with RPM IMNSHO). > Besides, I already contacted Robert to sta

Re: Patch to add undo/redo functionality to libparted

On Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 06:12:22PM -0200, Otavio Salvador wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > On Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 05:31:55PM -0200, Otavio Salvador wrote: > > > >> Just using the send command from darcs with signed changes should > >> do? > > > > You cannot use the "send" command yet, bec

Re: parted/d-i bug : vanishing print output, bug traced to table.c code.

On Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 05:49:55PM -0200, Otavio Salvador wrote: > > Are you sure? I recently ran into print not showing anything with > > Parted 1.7.1 on INSERT rescue disk (this is Knoppix-based, I don't > > know whether they use Debian patches). The issue has also been > > reported on FreeBSD,

Re: Patch to add undo/redo functionality to libparted

On Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 05:31:55PM -0200, Otavio Salvador wrote: > Just using the send command from darcs with signed changes should do? You cannot use the "send" command yet, because the email stuff isn't ready yet. You need to use "push". Leslie -- gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys D

Re: parted/d-i bug : vanishing print output, bug traced to table.c code.

On Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 06:09:01PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > On Thu, Nov 02, 2006 at 02:12:40PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > > Hi, ... > > > > it seems this bug is also affecting i386 and s390. > > > > I CCed bug-parted@gnu.org, since it probably concerns upstream > > too. For info, the bug is

Re: Patch to add undo/redo functionality to libparted

On Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 01:36:39PM -0200, Otavio Salvador wrote: > Would be good if we could have a wiki page where we could put our > custom branches there so other people can grab them and hack. I'll see what I can do. > Besides, how will be the merging work? Have you setuped it to some > peopl

Re: Patch to add undo/redo functionality to libparted

On Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 09:32:13AM -0200, Otavio Salvador wrote: > I liked the concept while I didn't like some function prototypes and > like. Since he stated that he'll rewrite it, there's no problem. > > Would be good if he could start a branch and use that for his > development (would be nice

Re: GNU Parted 'Edge' Branch

On Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 09:27:48AM -0200, Otavio Salvador wrote: > So your idea is to someone commit the changes back to darcs > repository? After 1.8-final we'll stop to use svn, right? That's the plan, yes. Leslie -- gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys DD4EBF83 http://nic-nac-project.de

Re: parted print breaks if label has no extended partitions but names. attached patch fixes it.

On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 07:38:50PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > After seeing strange breakage in debian-installer with mac partition > tables, and investigating, i found out that the parted.c:do_print > function was doing real bogus stuff when there where no extended > partitions but the labels had

Patch to add undo/redo functionality to libparted

Greetings, this mail concerns Parted Edge. Vanni Brutto has drafted a patch that adds undo/redo functionality to libparted; note the "drafted" -- its current state is that of a proof-of-concept. He states that he will rewrite it in a clean manner when the approach is agreed upon. Find it

GNU Parted 'Edge' Branch

Hello, I have forked a bleeding-edge development version of GNU Parted from 1.8rc2-something. The repository is in Darcs form with all the history preserved. You can check it out, provided you have a working installation of Darcs, with: darcs get http://viridian-project.de/darcs/parted

Re: parted/d-i bug : vanishing print output, bug traced to table.c code.

On Thu, Nov 02, 2006 at 02:12:40PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > We may think about removing the dependency on parted output parsing, > and replace that with a little libparted program instead. Colin, it > would be nice if you could comment on this, i believe this bit of code > may be yours. I'm not

Re: Re2: More on: can't shrink an ext2 - do I need parttiion magic to do this?

On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 08:55:58AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > If anybody responded to the above (a possible solution, for example) > I didn't get (because I was not on the list until recently), then, > please send me your info. I am primarily interested in "copying" such > fedora installed

Re: parted and 78 heads

On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 09:49:37PM +0200, Mario Gzuk wrote: > > > 3) replace the boot code in the fat32 partition to load the > > > windows ntldr (to start a windows installation) > > > > How are you doing number three? > > Just saved the bootcode from Sector 1 und 13 and replace it after > format

Re: parted and 78 heads

On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 08:33:52PM +0200, Mario Gzuk wrote: > Hi Leslie, > > i have forgot to say thank you for the work which you have > done already with your projects (not only parted...). So i will do it > now: thank you for this good work. You're welcome. I'm content with just the act of con

Re: parted and 78 heads

Hello Mario, On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 03:46:56PM +0200, Mario Gzuk wrote: > Hi, nobody out there who has simular problems? Sorry for not answering yet, but I have a huge backlog of stuff not only for Parted, but also for other things. > Here some more informations: parted version: 1.7.1 If I loa

Re: print gives an error

On Sun, Sep 10, 2006 at 09:25:52PM -0700, Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray wrote: > >The cause is probably that it's ext3 formatted. > > > >Parted's ext2 code doesn't support newer ext3 file systems very well. > > Is the solution to this problem related to making libparted support > external tools for ext3, N

Re: print gives an error

On Sun, Sep 10, 2006 at 11:57:07PM +0530, Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray wrote: > In case the same print command is issued with the partition mounted, > I get a: Error: File system was not cleanly unmounted! You should > run e2fsck. Modifying an unclean file system could cause severe > corruption. Ignore/Ca

Re: bug-message generated by fdisk, running on OS Kanotix

On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 10:22:22PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Version(1.6.25.1) Message: Assertion (disk ! = NULL) at .../ .../ > libparted/disk.c:1074 in function ped_disk_next_partition() failed Please check whether this problem occurs with the latest Parted version, too. If it does, ple

Re: possible bug?

On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 09:15:18AM -0400, Adam Todorski wrote: > Hardware: IBM e326m 4xAMD Opteron OS: RedHat AS 4 update 4 for x86_64 > uname -a: Linux node11.borg.scorec.rpi.edu 2.6.9-42.ELsmp #1 SMP Wed > Jul 12 23:32:02 EDT 2006 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux > > You found a bug in GNU Parted.

Re: Parted 1.8, translation?

On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 12:23:01PM +0200, Benno Schulenberg wrote: > Well, the problem nowadays is that the TP is incredibly slow: it can > easily take two weeks before an announcement to the TP is relayed to > the translators. :( Speaking of the TP, some time ago I sent a mail to Karl Eichwalder

Re: Parted 1.8, translation?

On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 12:17:49PM +0200, Benno Schulenberg wrote: > Has a URL been submitted to the Translation Project? Even if no > strings have changed, please give translators a chance to tweak their > translations. But I see there are at least five new strings, and at > least three have chan

Re: GPT: evms vs. parted

On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 04:59:27AM -0400, Andrew Schulman wrote: > Not having dug into the details of GPT disk labels, I can't say which > program is wrong, but clearly at least one of them is. Is this a known > issue? Anyone have any idea what the source of the discrepancy is? Try it with GNU Par

Re: Can't move an LVM partition?

On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 12:57:18PM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: > My parted binary (v1.7.1 from Debian testing) refuses the move LVM > partitions. Why is that? I moved it by hand by simply copying the data > with dd and it worked dandy. I suspect that the same holds for 99% of > the existing parti

Re: Alarming Discrepancy in Documentation of 'resize' command.

On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 08:16:51AM -0700, Matthew Johnson wrote: > So which is it? They can't both be right. Does 'resize' apply to > the partition, or to the filesystem on the partition? Or are both > documents right, but only for different versions of parted? This would > be a major difference i

Re: parted NAME Vs mkdosfs -n

Hello John, I'm having trouble understanding you... some questions: On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 05:00:12PM -0700, John Galloway wrote: > Answering my own question: NAME isn't supported for msdos partitions What do you mean by "NAME"? > the bug here is two fold. Do you mean within Parted? > 1) t

Re: bug?

On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 04:57:34PM +0200, Jonas Henriksen wrote: > Recieved the following message when trying to format a memory-stick to > ext3-format: > > A bug has been detected in GNU parted. Please email a bug report > to bug-parted@gnu.org containing the version (1.6.22) and the > following

Re: sys-apps/parted-1.7.0 doesnt recognise hfsplus partition

Hello Thomas, I have a few questions and hints for you. On Mon, May 29, 2006 at 07:03:44PM +0200, Thomas Meyer wrote: > how to print the gpt entry data in a more raw data style? Why do you believe GPT is at fault here? What do you mean by "in a more raw style"? If you want the exact locati

Re: fdisk

Hello Robert, news on GNU fdisk: On Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at 05:25:37PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > I'm afraid I don't have time to help actively (other than testing it). > However, if you need a platform for beta-testing, Debian GNU/kFreeBSD > is a good place: Because the "classical" util-linu

[patch #5127] Parted doesn't compile with LDFLAGS="-Wl, --as-needed"

URL: Summary: Parted doesn't compile with LDFLAGS="-Wl,--as-needed" Project: GNU Parted Submitted by: skypher Submitted on: Thursday 05/25/2006 at 11:43 Catego

Re: Bug in libparted/fs/hfs/probe.c

On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 10:32:47PM +0200, Władysław Bodzek wrote: > but if DEBUG is not defined PED_ASSERT becomes nothing > (include/parted/debug.h:85): We already have a patch for this, and it'll go into 1.7.1. Thanks anyway! Leslie -- gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 0x52D70289 ht

Re: Trying to 'print all' causess parted to behave weird

On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 12:15:38PM +0200, Johnny Bit wrote: > and it went into endless loop printing on screen message: --- You > found a bug in GNU Parted! Here's what you have to do: Interesting, thank you very much. Could you do us a favour and file this as a bug report at http://alioth.deb

Re: Issue installing a machine using that 1.4.16 that was previously parted with 1.6.19

On Thu, May 18, 2006 at 05:25:41PM +0200, Ximo Tur wrote: > Hello, I have just hit this and I haven't seen any reference anywhere > to this issue. I had a system (HP DL380) installed with RHEL4 Update 3 > (parted 1.6.19) and I tried to reinstall it with RHEL 2.1 AS (parted > 1.4.16) and the instal

GNU Parted 1.7.0

The GNU Parted team is pleased to announce version 1.7.0, a major release. Description === GNU Parted is a package for creating, destroying, resizing, checking, and copying partitions and the file systems on them. This is useful for creating space for new operating systems, reorganizing

Re: Partition(s) on /dev/sda are being used

On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 03:06:37PM -0700, Bernard Li wrote: > I checked /proc/mounts, /etc/mtab and sda is not referenced there. How > does parted determine if the partitions are being used or not? Device: the kernel is asked for this via "stat". Partition: using the same files you did. > The way

Re: parted 1.7.0rc5 bug w/ resize command

Can you please send the output of dumpe2fs /dev/hda2 ? Thanks, Leslie -- gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 0x52D70289 http://nic-nac-project.de/~skypher/ pgpDgnu8ZNACW.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ bug-parted mailing list bug-p

Re: Needs some advice

Hello Bob, did you try running 'partprobe'? What 'markpart' function are you referring to? Leslie -- gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 0x52D70289 http://nic-nac-project.de/~skypher/ pgpR5oP44c0GW.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ bug-pa

Re: Block 4456964 shouldn't have been marked!

Hi and thanks for the bug report! Can you provide the output of: dumpe2fs /dev/cciss/c0d0p1 - Leslie -- gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 0x52D70289 http://nic-nac-project.de/~skypher/ pgpunbZvEFSpZ.pgp Description: PGP signature _

Re: Appropriate to ask a question about parted?

On Sat, May 06, 2006 at 09:56:35AM -0700, Bob Lee wrote: > I have a question about makepart. Is this a forum to ask such? Almost everything storage-related goes here; please go ahead. Leslie -- gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 0x52D70289 http://nic-nac-project.de/~skypher/ pgpqkiSo9

Re: SI Units

Hello Youssef, "SI units" means that byte unit increments are by 1000, as opposed to 1024 ("binary units"). Binary units will be supported from parted 1.7.1 onwards. You can change between different units like sector, chs, kilobyte, etc. with the unit command or by suffixing values with 's',

Re: Parted problem on large disks

Hi Gunnarson, please try GNU Parted 1.6.25.1 or 1.7rc5. 1.6.19 is quite old. If the problem still persists, please file a bug at http://alioth.debian.org/tracker/?func=add&group_id=30287&atid=410685 and we will have a look! Thanks, Leslie -- gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --rec

Re: Assertion (metadata_length > 0) at dos.c:2011 [...] failed.

Hello Jakob, can you file this bug at http://alioth.debian.org/tracker/?func=add&group_id=30287&atid=410685 please? I will look into it for 1.7.1, then. Leslie -- gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 0x52D70289 http://nic-nac-project.de/~skypher/ pgpOKQGzy9lMk.pgp Description

[patch #5054] Add recording functionality to reading operations

URL: Summary: Add recording functionality to reading operations Project: GNU Parted Submitted by: skypher Submitted on: Wednesday 04/26/06 at 10:25 Category: l

[bug #3512] wichlist: support for ntfs

Update of bug #3512 (project parted): Status:Wont Fix => Postponed ___ Follow-up Comment #1: Will be resolved with support for external tools. __

Re: mklabel == nuketable, rescue seg faults [Re: Partition table gone]

On Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at 09:37:24PM +, Shane wrote: > If only that would work. This same thing happened to me. It's > incredibly unclear that mklabel does (the main line is that it > "creates a new disk label"). There should be a warning on that. Will be. > Anyway, parted rescue command appare

Re: enlarging a partition

Hi there, On Fri, Apr 14, 2006 at 05:38:36PM +0200, Pascal GREGIS wrote: > HOwever, if you just can tell me if my patch is correct or not, it > would always be helpfull. I can't see any problem with your patch. But if it helps, this might be a kernel bug that surfaced earlier and could be sol

Re: enlarging a partition

On Fri, Apr 14, 2006 at 05:38:36PM +0200, Pascal GREGIS wrote: > HOwever, if you just can tell me if my patch is correct or not, it > would always be helpfull. Where can I find your patch? Leslie -- gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 0x52D70289 http://nic-nac-project.de/~skypher/ pgp7Q

Re: endianness problem with GPT labels

Hello Lyonel, thanks for the report. I fixed it for rc5. > The GPT on this disk is actually version 1.00. 1 means "1.00". > This looks very much like a problem with endianness on PowerPC: > GuidPartitionTableHeader_t.Revision is actually big-endian. That (the "Revision" field) actually w

Re: Error when resizing an HFS+ partition

On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 05:43:16PM +0200, Benjamin Cama wrote: > So this is my (far less detailled than before) bug-report about this : Sorry I didn't mention it earlier, but I suggest that you additionally file a bug at http://alioth.debian.org/tracker/?atid=410685&group_id=30287&func=browse Th

Re: Wrong logical sector size detection

On Mon, Apr 10, 2006 at 04:42:29PM +0200, Benjamin Cama wrote: > Yes, did it this week-end and it works great ! Not so great when > trying to resize my HFS+ partition, but the problem with the sector > size is fixed. Unfortunately I'm absolutely green with respect to Apple stuff. If Guillaume or

Re: Wrong logical sector size detection

On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 06:07:30PM +0200, Benjamin Cama wrote: > > The bugs with the ioctl and the printf are of course genuine. The > > fix for them will go into rc4, which I will probably release today. > > Great. Did you already have the chance to test this? > Yes, the PPC architecture is bi

Re: parted bugfix (HFS)

On Sat, Apr 08, 2006 at 12:04:24AM +0200, K.G. wrote: > I absolutely agree with this patch :) Will you take the task of applying it? -- gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 0x52D70289 http://nic-nac-project.de/~skypher/ pgpP0AzRGwa43.pgp Description: PGP signature __

Re: enlarging a partition

The previous patch might not work. Please use this one. Leslie -- gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 0x52D70289 http://nic-nac-project.de/~skypher/ --- parted.c.old2006-04-07 18:53:14.0 +0200 +++ parted.c2006-04-07 23:23:55.0 +0200 @@ -1610,20 +1610,14 @@

Re: enlarging a partition

Here's the mentioned patch. Leslie -- gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 0x52D70289 http://nic-nac-project.de/~skypher/ --- parted.c.old2006-04-07 18:53:14.0 +0200 +++ parted.c2006-04-07 18:54:04.0 +0200 @@ -1613,17 +1613,9 @@ fs = ped_file_sy

Re: enlarging a partition

Hello Pascal, On Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 05:51:05PM +0200, Pascal GREGIS wrote: > I would like to enlarge my /data partition without having to umount > it. I tried with xfs_growfs, but it can only extend the xfs filesystem > to the size of the partition, which does not help me because my > filesyst

GNU Parted 1.7.0rc4 has been released

GNU Parted 1.7.0 release candidate 4 has been released. Changes: * fall back to old signal API for operating systems without sigaction() * handle sector_size correctly (as long long) * labels' probe functions now return immediately negative if the device's logical sector size is not equal to 51

Re: Wrong logical sector size detection

Hello Benjamin, thank you very much for your _excellent_ bug report! The rationale for changing sector_size to "long long" can be found somewhere on this mailing list around the time the change was committed and lies in automtical conversion. Suppose you have an expression like this: sec

Re: parted 1.7.0 rc1 rc2 and rc3

On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 12:27:01PM +0200, Ferro Robert wrote: > It is impossible to build parted on RedHat AS3, i got the message > > ui.c: In function `init_ui': > ui.c:1171: parse error before `curr' > ui.c:1172: `curr' undeclared (first use in this function) This is a know issue, and the fix i

Re: Italian translation and typos

Hello Giuseppe, thank you for your hints. I corrected them. Leslie -- gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 0x52D70289 http://nic-nac-project.de/~skypher/ pgpovzkFJT6BD.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ bug-parted mailing list bug-parted

Re: Problem formatting minidisc

On Sun, Apr 02, 2006 at 03:21:08AM -0400, Joseph Hill wrote: > While trying to format a Sony MiniDisc, gparted - version (1.6.25.1) - > crashed, and I received this information: The sector size on /dev/sda > is 2048 bytes. Parted is known not to work properly with drives with > sector sizes other

Re: Compiling error: missing initializar (1.7rc1)

Hello Anis! On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 01:27:48AM -0500, Anis Boubaker wrote: > cc1: warnings being treated as errors > reiserfs.c:808: warning: missing initializer > reiserfs.c:808: warning: (near initialization for > `reiserfs_full_type.block_sizes') > > Thanks in advance Thank yo

Re: parted-1.7.0rc1 - devices listed in reverse order

On Sat, Mar 25, 2006 at 09:42:01AM -0800, patrick verner wrote: > This is only a problem because I would like GParted to display the > first hd on start-up. The drives being in reverse order may confuse > first-time users. Other than that good job guys. Put on the TODO for 1.7rc2. Thank you for

Re: Bug introduced since parted 1.6.12

On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 05:45:35PM +0100, Wouter Coppens wrote: > Since version 1.6.12, there is something strange going on when > creating fat32 partitions. Have you tried GNU Parted version 1.6.25.1? If not, please wait for the release of GNU Parted 1.7rc1 (on Sunday or Monday) and check wheth

Re: mailing list moderation

On Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 04:40:45PM -0600, Adam Thornton wrote: > Could we throw the input to the list through SpamAssassin or > CRM114 or something, and discard everything above a ludicrously > high cutoff (say, a SA value of 7.0) before putting it in the > archives/redistributing to subscribers?

Re: mailing list moderation

Hello Karl, facts about bug-parted@gnu.org: - this list is active. - this list can't be subscriber-only as it is intended for bug reporting by everyone. - we can hardly spend time on moderation. Kind regards, Leslie -- gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 0x52D7

Re: Resize error on a hfs+ filesystem partition

On Sun, Mar 05, 2006 at 10:43:46AM -0600, Trevor Fancher wrote: > I am having some problems with resizing a partition. The partition's > filesystem is HFS+ with journalling disabled. GNU Parted version 1.7rc1 will be released in a few days. Please try it and report back if your problem is not so

Re: Bug introduced since parted 1.6.12

Hello again, On Sun, Mar 05, 2006 at 04:34:30AM +0100, Wouter Coppens wrote: > We have tried every version of parted (starting at 1.6.9 to 1.6.25.1). Version history shows that there has been a huge change in geometry detection from 1.6.11 to 1.6.12. Unfortunately, it's hard to track down wit

Re: convert FAT16 -> FAT32

On Tue, Feb 14, 2006 at 06:09:11PM +0200, Andrii Dobrovol`s`kii wrote: > Hi, If it possible to convert FAT16 to FAT32? No, sorry. Leslie -- gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 0x52D70289 http://nic-nac-project.de/~skypher/ pgpwWLWQjfeBy.pgp Description: PGP signature ___

Re: Linux Parted reboot error with 2.6 TB volume

On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 03:22:21PM -0500, Michael Lewis wrote: > I now have to use parted to format my volume. > > However whenever I reboot the server all the partition information and > thus data is lost. > > Am I missing something? Do I have to configure fstab or update some > configuration so

Re: Suggestions after gpart and e2retrieve both failed?

On Mon, Feb 06, 2006 at 09:55:45AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Using parted under Knoppix, I tried using "resize" to free up about > 10GB at the end of the ext2 partition. I then made a new win32 > partition in the space. I had a dim memory that Windows always wanted > to be the first partit

Re: Assertion PedSector failed

Hello Axel, On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 11:21:29AM +0100, Axel Rose wrote: > Assertion ((PedSector) PED_LE64_TO_CPU (gpt.AlternateLBA) <= > disk->dev->length - 1) at ../../libparted/disk_gpt.c:575 in function > gpt_read() failed. What operation did you attempt? Can you give us the output of part

Moving to a new list for development

Hi, I created a new subscriber-only list for development, [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Anant Narayanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> kindly volunteered to administrate it. If you are interested in bug reports for GNU Parted, please also stay subscribed to bug-parted, else just unsubscribe. The new list will

Website update; FAQ

Hello everyone, I updated a lot of things on the front site and added an FAQ. Check it out. Leslie -- gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 0x52D70289 pgpxb9GCCoZlB.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ Bug-parted mailing list Bug-parted@gn

Re: Please stop spam in bug-parted@gnu.org mailing list

On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 11:32:02PM +0100, Håkon Løvdal wrote: > I was able to find the following couple of references to integrating > spam handling into mailman. So it appears to be fully possible > (although I can by no means can promise that it is easy since I have > no experience). Thank you,

Re: Please stop spam in bug-parted@gnu.org mailing list

On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 12:36:39PM -0600, Andrew Gaffney wrote: > Don't you think that if it was easy that it would have been done > already? The only real way to stop the spam is to make it a > subscriber-post-only list, which make it useless for bug reports. Many > people won't subscribe just to

Re: RFC: block size identification

On Fri, 27 Jan 2006 08:10:58 +0100 Sven Luther > wrote: | I don't like this, it is indeed in line with Andrew's way of doing stuff, and | helps with recovery, but i believe also somewhat error prone. Why? Where do you see the possibility of error? Look at this: - we mistakenly calculate t

Re: libparted and partitiontypes

On Fri, 27 Jan 2006 18:14:39 +0100 B.Hakvoort <"B.Hakvoort" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: | recently someone filed a bug about partitiontypes. He would like to set | the partitiontype to 'c' (W95 FAT32 (LBA)), whereas libparted only knows | type 'b' (W95 FAT32). libparted does not really know a

New formatting engine

Hello, attached are three files that are the core of Parted's new formatting engine. Please review and test them (main.c can be used) if you have some time to spare. Thanks, Leslie -- gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 0x52D70289 pgp4jwsuRvNHo.pgp Description: PGP signature __

Re: New formatting engine

...and here are the files. gcc -ggdb table.c main.c -o tabletest && ./tabletest Leslie -- gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 0x52D70289 main.c Description: Binary data table.c Description: Binary data table.h Description: Binary data pgp54bF5TZAo3.pgp Description: PGP signature __

Re: Alternative to using partroot/new binary?

Hello Leslie, On Tue, 24 Jan 2006 16:09:17 +1100 (EST) Leslie Katz > wrote: | I then followed your steps 3 and 4, but, during step 4, I got the | following error message: "zsh: segmentation fault | /mnt/floppy/parted.static". | | What to do next? If you still intend to use this binary, I c

Re: Forcing geometry (was: Re: parted source access)

On Tue, 24 Jan 2006 10:56:47 -0600 Harley D. Eades III <"Harley D. Eades III" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: | Could you explain this further and in allot of detail :) I am unfortantly | not understanding what "forcing a certain geom" means. :) By what | criteria do we base this geometery on? On

Re: bug report

On Mon, 23 Jan 2006 12:51:10 + William Setters > wrote: | VERSION 1.6.22 | | This message appeared when I attempted to "print". | | Assertion ((C * heads + H) * sectors + S == A) at disk_dos.c:593 in function | probe_partition_for_geom() failed. Fixed in 1.6.25.1. Leslie -- gpg --ke

Forcing geometry (was: Re: parted source access)

Hello Jeremy, On Mon, 23 Jan 2006 16:47:26 -0500 Jeremy Moles > wrote: | Perhaps you can add the ability to force parted to use certain disk | geometry, useful in our case (and I'm sure you'll be familiar with | this :)) when recovery partitions--in particular, IBM's--need exact | geometry o

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