https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=712082 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=712082#c1 Petr Uzel changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Priority|P5 - None |P4 - Low Status|NEW |ASSIGNED Summary|Parted silently ignores a |parted: documentation about |given partition start |specifying partition start | |is incomplete Status Whiteboard| |parted Severity|Major |Normal --- Comment #1 from Petr Uzel 2011-08-15 10:30:19 UTC --- If you need parted to create new partition starting on some exact position, you have to specify the start in sectors, or (since parted-2.4) in MiB/GiB/... MB/GB allows parted to shift the start to properly align the partition. See parted.changes: - specifying partition start or end values using MiB, GiB, etc. suffixes now makes parted do what I want, i.e., use that precise value, and not some other that is up to 500KiB or 500MiB away from what I specified. Before, to get that behavior, you would have had to use carefully chosen values with units of bytes ("B") or sectors ("s") to obtain the same result, and with sectors, your usage would not be portable between devices with varying sector sizes. This change does not affect how parted handles suffixes like KB, MB, GB, etc. This behavior looks sane to me so no code changes are necessary. However, AFAICS, this is not documented in the manpage or info page -> I'll take care of fixing the documentation. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.