[parted-devel] Strange linux-swap name change

Jim Meyering jim at meyering.net
Tue Jul 14 19:26:01 UTC 2009


Colin Watson wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 11:29:01PM +0200, Jim Meyering wrote:
>> Thanks for doing that.
>> Note that your aliases apply to strings read from
>> a file system, not from the command line interface:
>>
>>     $ ./parted -s $dev mkfs 1 "linux-swap(v1)"
>>     $ ./parted -s $dev mkfs 1 "linux-swap(new)"
>>     ./parted: invalid token: linux-swap(new)
>>     Error: Expecting a file system type.
>>     [Exit 1]
>>
>> If you were to make them apply also to the UI,
>> then no one could complain at all, but it's not a big deal.
>
> That's odd; this was definitely not as intended, and I can't reproduce
> this, even with the commit you recently pushed (thanks!).
>
>   $ parted/parted -s t.img mkfs 1 'linux-swap(new)'
>   [0] filesys.c:147 (ped_file_system_type_get): File system alias linux-swap(new) is deprecated
>
> The parted UI seems to use ped_file_system_type_get, which definitely
> ought to do file system alias lookups given my patch, so I don't see
> where this could be going wrong. What am I missing?

Humph.  I cannot reproduce it now, either.
Sorry about that.  I must have been testing a binary
that didn't include your changes.



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