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#31106
Inaccuracy in GNU parted documentation online manual
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Reported by: Will Haley <willhy <at> gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2018 08:04:03 UTC
Severity: normal
Done: Phil Susi <psusi <at> ubuntu.com>
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Message #10 received at 31106-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):
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The msdos partition table does not support names; use gpt for that.
On 4/9/2018 12:03 AM, Will Haley wrote:
> https://www.gnu.org/software/parted/manual/parted.html says, regarding
> `mkpart`, that a name can be specified as an argument to `mkpart`.
>
> https://www.gnu.org/software/parted/manual/parted.html#mkpart
>
> Command: *mkpart* *[part-type fs-type name] start end*
>
> That does not seem to be true with the latest build of parted. At least,
> not in the versions currently packaged for Ubuntu 16, Arch, or when
> compiling from the git master as of 2018/04/08
>
> The doc I referenced above states: "This document applies roughly to
> version *3.2* of GNU Parted."
>
> Unfortunately, the documented syntax does not appear to be valid.
> Considering that the documentation index states the docs were last updated
> in 2016, I'm assuming the syntax online is outdated.
> https://www.gnu.org/software/parted/manual/
>
> This is what I see when compiling parted from the latest souce.
> https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/parted.git
>
> $ ./parted --version
> parted (GNU parted) 3.2.94-7188
>
> $ ./parted --help | grep -i mkpart
> mkpart PART-TYPE [FS-TYPE] START END make a partition
>
> Indeed, trying to specify a name for `mkpart` results in an error.
>
> Please let me know if there is anything I can to do assist in updating this
> documentation.
>
> Thank you.
>
> -Will
>
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