Re: Bug#146607: parted: documentation and online help don't match actual capability (ext3)

[Andrew Clausen]

On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 10:59:36PM +1100, Timshel Knoll wrote:
> I got this bug report ages ago, but never forwareded it to you, cause I
> never really knew what to do with it. I'd suggest that this bug be taken
> as a request to change the online help to show only implemented options
> to the "help" message for parted commands.
> 
> For example, when a user types "help mkfs", only "ext2, fat, fat32,
> linux-swap [and reiserfs]" should be listed as valid options for the
> file system. (the [and reiserfs] in brackets as it should only be
> printed if libreiserfs is found ...) It should be relatively trivial to
> implement this, shouldn't it?

Yeah, just more bureaucracy.  The [reiserfs] bit isn't trivial.
libparted doesn't expose whether functionality is external, etc.

> On Fri, May 10, 2002 at 10:04:11PM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote:
> > The man page and online help both suggest that ext3 is an option for 
> > a filesystem type. However, when I use
> > 
> > mkpartfs primary ext3 15893 16193
> > 
> > I get the error
> > 
> > No implementation: support for creating ext3 file systems is not 
> > implemented yet.
> > 
> > When I use 
> > 
> > mkpartfs primary ext3 15893 16193
> > 
> > I receive no error, however no filesystem is created at all.

I thought you said you get the above error message?
Typo?

Cheers,
Andrew