Re: parted pre8 Apple_Void oddness

[Andrew Clausen]

Ethan Benson wrote:
> make the above partition table pretty much as is, except the bootstrap
> partition was ending at 1MB.  i deleted it in parted and recreated it
> ending at 0.813, (which make it 1601 blocks bah) so i deleted and
> recreated it in mac-fdisk as the perfect 800K it is there. (im picky
> ok? ;-)) then i go back to parted, delete the 3rd partition (root) and
> recreate it to fill that space, ie 0.812 -> 40.000.  it filled all the
> space just fine but parted created that bogus Apple_Void partition in
> there.

Hmmm.  Parted creates the Apple_Void partitions to fill in unused parts
of the partition map, to preserve the partition numbers.  What should it
do?  Is the current behaviour bad?  Does it anything choke?

> here is parted's output, note all partitions have filesystems on them,
> 2 and 12 are HFS.  (hformated) note parted does not detect the
> filesystem on those.

Ooops.  Fixed.  I wonder how it managed to detect before, then...?
(I was reading block 0, not block 2)
 
> also one other thing, if you try and run mkfs with a filesystem type
> parted does not support, such as hfs or reiserfs, it says no
> implementation but it trashes the partition's existing filesystem
> anyway.  i suppose this is not that big a deal since it would be
> trashed anyway if it was supported, but it seems odd...

Good point.  I'll change this...

Thanks,
Andrew Clausen