Re: Parted 1.6.0-pre8

[Richard Hirst]

On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 11:12:20AM +1000, Andrew Clausen wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Is there anything left to do before 1.6.0?

Builds fine on ia64 now, thanks.  Still missing flags in print output
for GPT.  I rasied this earlier, but didn't see a specific response; if
you plan on ignoring this until post 1.6, that's ok, but it is another
reason people might stick with 1.4 on ia64.  In comparing 1.4 and 1.6
code, I prefer the 1.4 way of handling partition type internally as a
GUID, rather than seperate boot, raid, and lvm fields in GPTPartitionData.
I recall some comment from you on the m-l about this at some point, but
I can't find it now.

Compare 1.4 output:

address@hidden:/build/parted/parted-1.6.0-pre8$ sudo parted /dev/sdc p
Disk geometry for /dev/sdc: 0.000-4095.856 megabytes
Disk label type: GPT
Minor    Start       End     Filesystem  Name                  Flags
1          0.017     50.000  FAT                               boot, lba
2         50.000    150.000  FAT                               hp-service, lba
6        300.000    400.000                                    raid, lba
3        700.000    800.000                                    lvm, lba
4       1174.000   4095.840  ext2                              lba

with 1.6-pre8 output:

address@hidden:/build/parted/parted-1.6.0-pre8$ sudo parted/parted /dev/sdc p
Disk geometry for /dev/sdc: 0.000-4095.856 megabytes
Disk label type: gpt
Minor    Start       End     Filesystem  Name                  Flags
1          0.017     50.000  fat16                             
2         50.000    150.000  fat16                             
6        300.000    400.000                                    
3        700.000    800.000                                    
4       1174.000   4095.840  ext2                              
Information: Don't forget to update /etc/fstab, if necessary.


I don't see the point in showing 'lba' as a flag, as it isn't really,
and I can't set it on or off.  Also you don't have hp-service in your
source, but boot, raid, lvm flags should still be handled.

Cheers,
  Richard