
Feature changed by: Andreas Jaeger (a_jaeger) Feature #306443, revision 6 Title: change parted to use Hardware suggested sectors per track - openSUSE-11.2: Evaluation + openSUSE-11.2: Rejected by Andreas Jaeger (a_jaeger) + reject date: 2009-08-11 15:45:20 + reject reason: Too late for openSUSE 11.2 Priority Requester: Important + openSUSE-11.3: Evaluation + Priority + Requester: Important Requested by: Dean Giles (dgiles) Description: parted creates partitions which are automatically assigned 63 sectors per track. Hardware, such as HP raid devices, advertise that they want 32 sectors per track. It advertises that through ioctl HDIO_GETGEO. fdisk can utilize the hardware reported sectors per track. parted needs to be changed to do the same. See bug # 501152. Dean -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306443