From: Francesco Cosoleto <cosoleto@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2011 21:39:30 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: fdisk: improve error message for missing extended partition
X-Git-Tag: v2.20-rc1~305
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=63c3e98f21d8470ccf9af026997c695a79650530;p=thirdparty%2Futil-linux.git

fdisk: improve error message for missing extended partition

Signed-off-by: Francesco Cosoleto <cosoleto@gmail.com>
---

diff --git a/fdisk/fdisk.c b/fdisk/fdisk.c
index 7a80db1ed7..4a37b3b9f4 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"));