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authorFrancesco Cosoleto2011-04-28 23:39:30 +0200
committerKarel Zak2011-05-03 12:59:03 +0200
commit63c3e98f21d8470ccf9af026997c695a79650530 (patch)
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parentfdisk: fix "invalid partition number for type" error message (diff)
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fdisk: improve error message for missing extended partition
Signed-off-by: Francesco Cosoleto <cosoleto@gmail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'fdisk/fdisk.c')
-rw-r--r--fdisk/fdisk.c4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/fdisk/fdisk.c b/fdisk/fdisk.c
index 7a80db1ed..4a37b3b9f 100644
--- a/fdisk/fdisk.c
+++ b/fdisk/fdisk.c
@@ -2525,8 +2525,8 @@ new_partition(void) {
if (extended_offset)
add_logical();
else
- printf(_("You must delete some partition and add "
- "an extended partition first\n"));
+ printf(_("If you want to create more than four partitions, you must replace a\n"
+ "primary partition with an extended partition first.\n"));
} else if (partitions >= MAXIMUM_PARTS) {
printf(_("All logical partitions are in use\n"));
printf(_("Adding a primary partition\n"));