On Mon, Feb 02, 2015 at 09:35:21PM +0100, Benno Schulenberg wrote:
> 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.
This all is the same issue, the code checked for "1" rather than for
sector size. It should be fixed now.
> 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.
Fixed.
> 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. ??
Yeah, libfdisk align and of the partition, unfortunately for very
small sizes (smaller than gain used for alignment) it does not make
sense.
Fixed.
> 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.)
I guess it was problem with free space calculation. It should be fixed now.
> 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.
I'm going to merge it. Thanks!
Karel
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