[Libguestfs] Error with part-add with bsd partition

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 10:02:16PM +0400, Nikita A Menkovich wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I receive an answer from debian maintainers, so this is not a bug.
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=622153
> I will try to reproduce this tomorrow. Maybe we will need enchancement
> for libguestfs.

Well this is the point: it's a bug in the libguestfs API.

But it is caused by the stupidity of the parted interface: you can't
know whether or not to omit this parameter unless you know the
partition table type, which parted is supposed to be hiding from you.

Rich.

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