On Sat, Nov 11, 2006 at 11:37:10AM +0000, Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray wrote: > >You are not supposed to select a partition, select is just for disks > >(and loop devices). > > > >Parted allowing you to execute select on an extended partition number > >is the problem... > > But one can successfully execute 'select' followed by 'print' on > primary partitions. eg., I took the image of a swap partition using > dd and Parted recognizes it as a 'file' device having a 'loop' > disk-label. Indeed. Would you like to add support for extended partitions? This might be non-trivial.
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