[Parted-maintainers] Bug#879555: parted: Option '-s' incompatible with shrinking a partition

[Matthias Urlichs]

Package: parted
Version: 3.2-18
Severity: normal

Option '-s' is supposed to mean "never prompt for user intervention".

Unfortunately, shrinking a partition still emits a prompt. Worse, there is
no way to ack the prompt, the operation always fails.

Ugly workaround: don't use '-s', and add "yes" to the command line.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.1
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (700, 'stable'), (650, 'oldstable'), (600, 'unstable'), (550, 'experimental'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386, armhf

Kernel: Linux 4.11.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages parted depends on:
ii  libc6         2.24-11+deb9u1
ii  libparted2    3.2-18
ii  libreadline7  7.0-3
ii  libtinfo5     6.0+20161126-1

parted recommends no packages.

Versions of packages parted suggests:
pn  parted-doc  <none>

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