Hi All,

On SLES 10 , I am using parted command to partition a device but the behaviour of parted command is varying from one Archetecture to another archtecture.

I am using the following command to partition a device from 0 to 100 MB

$ parted -d /dev/sda mkpart p 0 100

and with the help print option i am printing the partition table. The o/p of $parted -s /dev/sda print is varying from one arch to another arch.

The o/p of $parted -s /dev/sda print on i386 machine

Disk geometry for /dev/sda: 0kB - 73GB
Disk label type: msdos
Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
1 1kB 100MB 100MB primary reiserfs type=83

The o/p of $parted -s /dev/sda print on i386 machine

Disk geometry for /dev/sda: 0kB - 7516MB
Disk label type: gpt
Number Start End Size File system Name Flags
1 17kB 100MB 100MB

My question is, on ia 64 arch why parted command is leaving first 17 kB of the device?

Your help is appreciated

Regards,

Masthan