Re: [parted-devel] Extended partitions

[leslie . polzer]

On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 11:36:13PM +0000, Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray wrote:

> (parted) select /dev/hda4 Using /dev/hda4 (parted) print Error: Can't
> have a partition outside the disk! (parted)
>
> Is this how it is supposed to be, or should it be treated as a bug?
You are not supposed to select a partition, select is just for disks
(and loop devices).
Parted allowing you to execute select on an extended partition number
is the problem...

  Leslie

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