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

[Rod S. <rod...@ro...>]

On 10/9/21 5:26 PM, u3...@ne... wrote:
> Rod Smith <rod...@ro...> wrote:
> 
>> 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

That command includes the --change-name option, which is what was
triggering the stray debugging code.

> (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 
>>>
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>>> u34
>>>
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