Bug 224681
| Summary: | "parted --script <dev> mklabel msdos" no longer works | ||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | Reporter: | Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos> |
| Component: | parted | Assignee: | David Cantrell <dcantrell> |
| Status: | CLOSED NEXTRELEASE | QA Contact: | Brock Organ <borgan> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 5.0 | CC: | dchapman |
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| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2007-09-13 21:19:50 UTC | Type: | --- |
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Checked latest RHEL 5.1 test builds and the --script option is now working as expected (i.e., it won't prompt you). I used your two test commands: parted --script <dev> mklabel msdos parted --script <dev> mkpart 0 -1 The mklabel one works fine, but the mkpart one is actually invalid. It lacks the partition type. Also, you can't specify -1 as the ending point. So I used: parted --script <dev> mkpart primary 0 1 And that worked. Closing as nextrelease since this will be fixed in RHEL 5.1. How do you specify that the partition is to take up the whole disk? That's what I used the -1 for: if I cannot use that, is there another way? Also, do you have a version number for the package that I should get to try it out? Thanks! |
Description of problem: I use "parted --script <dev> mklabel msdos" and also "parted --script <dev> mkpart 0 -1" in scripts, but they have recently started failing - I think since RHEL5 rcs6 but it may go back to earlier snapshots; I believe it worked in the beta2 from last October. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): parted-1.8.1-4.el5 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Go into parted and change the label of some device to e.g. "loop", then quit. 2.At a shell prompt, say: parted --script <dev> mklabel msdos 3. Actual results: # parted --script /dev/sdb mklabel msdos Warning: The existing disk label on /dev/sdb will be destroyed and all data on this disk will be lost. Do you want to continue? # and the label does *not* change. Expected results: I expect the label of the disk to be set to "msdos". In fact, I expect no warning since the --script option is documented in the man page as follows: -s, --script never prompt the user. Additional info: