parted "print" output formatting

2007-07-11 Thread Dax Kelson
Andrew & Richard, With older versions of parted the output of "print" was in megabytes with no "human friendly" conversions and suffixes like MB or GB. In house we wrote a script around parted that automatically created a new logical partition that started 1 megabyte after the last partition. We

Re: parted "print" output formatting

2007-07-11 Thread Dax Kelson
On Wed, 2007-07-11 at 11:50 -0600, Dax Kelson wrote: > Andrew & Richard, > > With older versions of parted the output of "print" was in megabytes > with no "human friendly" conversions and suffixes like MB or GB. > > In house we wrote a script around parted that automatically created a > new logi

Re: parted "print" output formatting

2007-07-11 Thread Jim Meyering
Dax Kelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... >> Please consider reverting the "human friendly" print output change, or >> support a option to print (say, -m) that prints only megabyte values >> (ala, the historical output style of 'print'). > > Thinking about this more, changing format and requiring a