[parted-devel] Debugging question

[Matt Davis]

I was just wondering how you all typically debug.  I was figuring I
could `dd` a empty file, turn that into a filesystem `mkfs` and debug
parted using that file as dummy to test on.  Is this a typical/sane
way to debug, or is it recommended that I dig up a scratch drive to
test with?  I tried it anyways, but I could not get parted to
recognize that file as a filesystem.  Even if I pointed parted
directly to it `parted <path to dummy>`

Thanks!

-Matt (Enferex)