From: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
To: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@gnu.org>
Cc: Petr Uzel <petr.uzel@suse.cz>, util-linux <util-linux@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] gpt: create empty disklabels
Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2012 12:35:03 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121102113503.GB30319@x2.net.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1351358627.2842.3.camel@offbook>
On Sat, Oct 27, 2012 at 07:23:47PM +0200, Davidlohr Bueso wrote:
> This patch enables creating a new, empty, GPT disklabel from either
> an empty disk or one that already has a disklabel. For this
> purpose, a 'g' option is added to the main menu and is visible to all
> labels. Here's an example for a scsi_debug device (/dev/sdb):
>
> ...
> Device does not contain a recognized partition table
> Building a new DOS disklabel with disk identifier 0x20a614c8.
> 3696: fdisk: CONTEXT: zeroize in-memory first sector buffer
>
> Command (m for help): g
It would be be really nice to print a message, something like
GPT disk label created.
and it would be also nice to print label type in the 'p'(print)
command output and maybe also PT uuid.
> fdisks/fdisk.c | 4 ++
> fdisks/gpt.c | 202 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
> 2 files changed, 200 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
Applied, excellent, thanks!
Karel
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Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-10-27 17:23 [PATCH v2 2/2] gpt: create empty disklabels Davidlohr Bueso
2012-11-01 9:06 ` Petr Uzel
2012-11-02 11:35 ` Karel Zak [this message]
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