On 8/10/06, Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> wrote:

"MASTHAN DUDEKULA" <d.mastan@gmail.com> writes:

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

That's the space for the partition table.

Andreas.

--
Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, schwab@suse.de
SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany
PGP key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5
"And now for something completely different."