FW: Bug#146608: parted: Powerpcs do not use primary, extended, or logical partitions

[Timshel Knoll]

Here's another that I forgot to forward ...

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Subject: Bug#146608: parted: Powerpcs do not use primary, extended, or logical 
partitions
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Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 22:11:37 -0700
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Package: parted
Version: 1.4.24-4
Severity: minor

Partitioning on a powerpc does not involve a choice of partition type
between primary, extended, or logical. However parted won't work
unless 'primary' is inserted as PART-TYPE. This parameter should be
optional for powerpc's, or else a new value such as 'powerpc' should
be allowed.

In addition, there is odd behavior when 'logical' or 'extended' are
used. For 'logical', parted responds with the error 'mac disk labels
do not support extended partitions'. Notice the mismatch between
'logical' and 'extended'. If 'extended' is used, a help message on the
syntax of the command is issued. This is also unhelpful, since valid
syntax has actually been used.

-- System Information
Debian Release: 3.0
Architecture: powerpc
Kernel: Linux debian 2.4.16-newpmac #1 Mon Jan 7 20:51:25 EST 2002 ppc
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C

Versions of packages parted depends on:
ii  e2fsprogs                1.27-2          The EXT2 file system utilities and
ii  e2fsprogs [libuuid1]     1.27-2          The EXT2 file system utilities and
ii  libc6                    2.2.5-4         GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libncurses5              5.2.20020112a-7 Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libparted1.4             1.4.24-4        The GNU Parted disk partitioning l
ii  libreadline4             4.2a-5          GNU readline and history libraries
pn  libuuid1                                 Not found.

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