-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 4/23/2013 11:11 AM, Len Sorensen wrote: > Package: parted Version: 2.3-12 Severity: normal Tags: upstream > > If you try to create a partition starting at 1MiB and ending at the > end of the disk by doing: > > mkpart primary 1MiB -1s > > You can a warning about alignment (which is obviously wrong given > 1MiB is perfectly aligned), and the start is instead 63s.
It looks like this was fixed upstream in commit 18e727d4 - libparted: fix snap radius so that it is using half, which is a simple one line change: diff --git a/libparted/unit.c b/libparted/unit.c index dc4205b..c2921e3 100644 - --- a/libparted/unit.c +++ b/libparted/unit.c @@ -533,7 +533,7 @@ ped_unit_parse_custom (const char* str, const PedDevice* dev, PedUnit unit, } unit_size = ped_unit_get_size (dev, unit); - - radius = ped_div_round_up (unit_size, dev->sector_size) - 1; + radius = (ped_div_round_up (unit_size, dev->sector_size) / 2) - 1; if (radius < 0) radius = 0; /* If the user specifies units in a power of 2, e.g., 4MiB, as in -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJRduvqAAoJEJrBOlT6nu75D78IANWiNm4jz4CnijILuAKO3wxD ZtNhTQy8YZk1JzJ9I7L/TDtxp9tg8H591VyB7j23Q7svPwZoiFqa+RkVpH1lBoMS I6ks8SAipiq7AkgzHBaJKHmpXscgez38ujYdHXArywLaCalrY5CnCs3Nwb1DT6Oc E7G9N28y4cX6ifmyptCdav0dRAs1l2dVZRehhJKy6AQpc8Ggg4H40/2Bc+wXHtp3 OrAXH/Jsw65/jFVHyVtGhYnRcazazcN+9oQbV6G3GCNzNAbihQTKPnuwyICmnnrt EWZJw8YVZu3kx2UbQrm7eC1pg/CkTUi7522MNO57HKQm2Upwbi+eh7fbPPLOx2I= =oleD -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org