[parted-devel] [PATCH] Correct a misleading diagnostic.

Jim Meyering jim at meyering.net
Thu May 31 14:03:23 UTC 2007


We get this diagnostic only if ped_disk_open _succeeds_.

	Correct a misleading diagnostic.
	* libparted/disk.c (ped_disk_new): Remove always-false "Unable to open"
	part of diagnostic.  Leave the "unrecognized disk label" part.

Signed-off-by: Jim Meyering <jim at meyering.net>
---
 libparted/disk.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/libparted/disk.c b/libparted/disk.c
index d23fe15..547d037 100644
--- a/libparted/disk.c
+++ b/libparted/disk.c
@@ -199,7 +199,7 @@ ped_disk_new (PedDevice* dev)
 	type = ped_disk_probe (dev);
 	if (!type) {
 		ped_exception_throw (PED_EXCEPTION_ERROR, PED_EXCEPTION_CANCEL,
-			_("Unable to open %s - unrecognised disk label."),
+			_("%s: unrecognised disk label"),
 			dev->path);
 		goto error_close_dev;
 	}



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