Re: [Gptfdisk-general] sgdisk: Slightly more verbose when choosing first available partNum

[<u3...@ne...>]

Rod Smith <rod...@ro...> wrote:

> On 10/9/21 9:53 AM, u3...@ne... wrote:
> > Hello,
> > Relating to 1.0.8, and prior versions:
> > With, for example,
> > 
> >     sgdisk --new:0:0:+10000000 /dev/sdc
> > 
> > it can print
> > 
> >     partNum is 2
> 
> Actually, it should never print that message with the --new command. In
> fact, it *SHOULD* never print that message at all; however, I did find a
> stray bit of debugging code that prints such a message in the
> -c/--change-name function of sgdisk. I've removed this code from the
> source code; the change is now in the git repository.
> 

Thank you.

The following is NOT with the latest git revision. It is with 1.0.8 already 
installed here. Hopefully, you already addressed it.
I rechecked my example. Indeed, it doesn't print the partNum message. It 
could be I was tired. However, I do get the following:

    # sgdisk --pretend --set-alignment=1 --new=0:0:+100000 --typecode=0:0700 --change-name=0:12345 --attributes=0:set:63 /dev/sdc
    Setting name!
    partNum is 2

(The long command line is due to this time trying to keep exactly what I 
have tried)
I think those messages also appear without --pretend, keeping the rest of 
the line as is. Once again, this is NOT with the latest git revision.
Hopefully, you already fixed the problem.

--
u34

> > . Meaning, while the first available partition number is 3, it prints 
> > partNum is 2. Which looks to me a bit confusing. Takes time to get used to. 
> > I think it should be a bit more verbose. Something like:
> > 
> >    Last used partNum is 2
> > Or,
> >    Last used partNum is 2. Will create partNum 3.
> > Or,
> >    Highest used partNum is 2
> > Or,
> >    First available partNum is 3 
> > 
> > --
> > u34
> > 
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