After the recent fixes, I notice some different problems in cfdisk. 1) If on my disk I delete the extended partition sda4, and then try to create a partition of 0 bytes (entering a bare 0 at the prompt), the response is: "Minimum size is 1 bytes." What it problably means is: 1 sector, in my case 512 bytes (which I confirmed by trying 511 and 512). 2) When instead of 0 I enter 1, the response is: "Too small partition size specified." But now it has *exited* from the size prompt. This is inconsistent. Upon any invalid entry it shows a message and stays at the prompt, but when the number is too small (but not zero) it exits. 3) When I try to create a partition of size 12J (typo for K), it says "Failed to parse size." but replaces what I typed with the amount of free space, leaving me puzzled about what I typed wrong. It should instead leave at the prompt whatever I typed, so I can correct it. 4) Okay, now I create sda4 as a primary partition of 12K. It gets created, but the shown size is 0 sectors and 0 bytes. ?? 5) In the remaining free space I try to create another partition, of whatever size cfdsik itself suggests. Nothing is created and there is no error message. (In my opinion cfdisk shouldn't even ask for a size in this situation, but say that no more partitions can be created. Maybe even the Free space should be labeled as Unusable free space instead.) 6) Delete sda4 again and create a primary sda4 of 12M. Then in the remaining free space try to create another partition of whatever size cfdisk proposes. The response is (all on one line): "Impossible to create another primary partition. If you want to create more partitions, you must replace a primary partition wit" On my terminal the message is truncated. On an 80-character device the message would read: "Impossible to create another primary partition. If you want to create more parti" More parties? Of course! :) But not very helpful. An upcoming patch will suggest a shorter one. Benno -- http://www.fastmail.com - Does exactly what it says on the tin -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
