Subject: bug#21878: [parted-Bugs][304219] 'parted -s' cannot create file systems any more

From: <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2015 14:06:43 +0000

parted-Bugs item #304219 was changed at 2015-11-11 14:06 by Gareth Randall
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Status: Open
Priority: 3
Submitted By: Nobody (None)
Assigned to: Nobody (None)
Summary: 'parted -s' cannot create file systems any more 
Category: parted
Group: None
Resolution: None

Initial Comment:
A 'parted -s' command to create a file system results in a warning message, exits immediately, and does nothing.  For example:

  # parted -s /dev/hda mkfs 5 ext2
  Warning: The existing file system will be destroyed and all data on the
  partition will be lost. Do you want to continue?

This used to work in 1.7.1, but not any more since at least 1.8.2.
See  https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=172248

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Comment By: Gareth Randall (gareth-guest)
Date: 2015-11-11 14:06

Message:
This bug can be closed, because parted does not support creating filesystems any more.

In the README file:
"Most FS-related functionality was removed after Parted 2.4.
Thus, the following commands are no longer supported:
mkpartfs, mkfs, cp, move, check, resize."

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