Re: Patch to add new '--unit' option to parted

2012-02-20 Thread Jim Meyering
Mike Cooper wrote: > The "parted -m print" output is quite useful but it lacks the > ability to specify an option to control the units which are displayed. > The attached source diff for parted 3.0 adds a new command line option > --unit compact|sector|byte|cylinder|chs' which provides the desired

Re: [platform-testers] new snapshot available: parted-3.0.136-1f80

2012-02-20 Thread Bruno Haible
Jim Meyering wrote: > http://meyering.net/parted/parted-3.0.136-1f80.tar.xz MacOS X 10.5: configure: error: Unknown or unsupported OS "darwin9.8.0". Only "linux", "gnu" and "beos" are supported in this version of GNU Parted. FreeBSD 6.4: configure: error: Unknown or unsupported OS "freebsd6.4

Re: [platform-testers] new snapshot available: parted-3.0.136-1f80

2012-02-20 Thread Bruno Haible
Jim Meyering wrote: > The sole failure seems to be due to mkswap failing on your system. > However, the code that is failing redirects stderr and stdout > to /dev/null, so there is no clue in the log. > > I confirmed that it works on openSUSE 11.4: > >$ dd if=/dev/null of=f bs=1 seek=30M && m