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[grub #78] minor-ish 'partnew' info documentation error
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s2108287 |
Subject: |
[grub #78] minor-ish 'partnew' info documentation error |
Date: |
Sat, 03 May 2003 15:25:02 +0900 |
Reporter: address@hidden
Summary: minor-ish 'partnew' info documentation error
Version: 0.93
Type: documentation bug
Message:
Hiya,
First of all thanks for the exremely cool software. And sorry if this doesn't
make sense. Anywho...
The info and online documentation of GRUB describes the command 'partnew'
incorrectly. Inparticular, the final argument is described as 'to', the last
sector of the new partition. Which can be seen just below:
partnew part type from to Command
Create a new primary partition. part is a partition specification in GRUB
syntax (see Naming convention); type is the partition type and must be a number
in the range 0-0xff; from and to are the starting and ending sectors, expressed
as an absolute sector number.
Or seen at "http://www.gnu.org/manual/grub/html_node/partnew.html#partnew".
However, the last argument actually describes the length of the new partion.
Which can be seen in "stage2/builtins.c" lines 2757 to 2767 of 0.93 source code:
static struct builtin builtin_partnew =
{
"partnew",
partnew_func,
BUILTIN_CMDLINE | BUILTIN_MENU | BUILTIN_HELP_LIST,
"partnew PART TYPE START LEN",
"Create a primary partition at the starting address START with the"
" length LEN, with the type TYPE. START and LEN are in sector units."
};
Anyways, hopefully that makes sense. And thanks again for the cool software.
Regards,
Daniel Farrell
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