Re: parted pre8 Apple_Void oddness

[Andrew Clausen]

Ethan Benson wrote:
> > 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.

hehe

> > 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 ;-)

disagree!  they're very similar, really.  just different terminology,
and put to different uses.
 
> is there a verbose mode to parted?

no

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

I guess you can use pdisk, for debugging.  After each command, you can load
pdisk, and print out the partition table.

BTW, I'm on IRC now

Andrew Clausen