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

[Andrew Clausen]

On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 11:05:56PM +1100, Timshel Knoll wrote:
> 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

I'm not interested in minor usability issues for old versions.

> 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.

Why?

> 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.

In 1.6.x, parted will keep asking until you give it primary.

        (parted) mkpart logical
        Partition type?  [primary]?

(Same for extended partitions)

Is this ok?  I guess this could frustrate some users who haven't
figured it out.

Cheers,
Andrew