Re: parted pre8 Apple_Void oddness

[Ethan Benson]

On Sat, Nov 04, 2000 at 07:13:42PM +1100, Andrew Clausen wrote:
> > i have 3 partitions
> > i shrink partition 1
> > i delete and recreate partition 2 to fill space filled by shrinkage of 
> > partition 1.
> > now i have 4 partitions, one of which is completely and totally worthless.
> 
> I can't reproduce this behaviour.

maybe using mac-fdisk in the mix caused it...

> So, how should I avoid them?  pdisk renumbers partitions in this situation
> (bad!)

well in my above example the partitions did end up getting renumbered.


> Why?  I don't understand what your saying - Apple_Void isn't a partition.
> It's an empty partition map entry.  For example, with DOS disk labels,
> you can have partition 1 and 3, but no partition 2 and 4.

yes but then again mac disklabels are really nothing like dos
disklabels ;-)  

is there a verbose mode to parted?  maybe that would be a better
solution, have a verbose or expert mode where lots of boring details
and `hidden' partitions are displayed.

> I can change this behaviour, but I think preserving numbers is good for
> /etc/fstab

ill test it more, but in this case it didn't preserve the numbers,
thats where the problem is.  

-- 
Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/

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