[parted-devel] [PATCH][RFC] Print maximum size of GPT

[Phillip Susi]

Brian C. Lane writes:

> Wow, so you're using > 128 partitions?

I wonder about that as well.  Also how does printing the number help?

> In theory GPT can support more, but parted doesn't have any way to
> create them so we've never needed to display that.
>
> Thanks for the patch, but it would break anything parsing the output,
> and for something as unusual as this I don't think we want to do that.

Anything parsing the output should be parsing the machine parsable
version, where new fields can be added at the end without breaking
existing parsers.