Package: parted Version: 2.3-1 Severity: wishlist Hi,
when a partition doesn't end on a cylinder boundary, the "normal" fdisk will complain: r...@grml ~ # parted /dev/sda mkpart ext2 40 60 Information: You may need to update /etc/fstab. r...@grml ~ # parted /dev/sda print Model: ATA WDC WD1002FBYS-0 (scsi) Disk /dev/sda: 1000GB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B Partition Table: gpt Number Start End Size File system Name Flags 1 39.8MB 59.8MB 19.9MB ext2 r...@grml ~ # fdisk -l /dev/sda GNU Fdisk 1.2.4 Copyright (C) 1998 - 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This program is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. Disk /dev/sda: 1000 GB, 1000202273280 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121601 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 5 8 64102 83 Linux Warning: Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary. r...@grml ~ # I know this is irrelevant nowadays since today's disks are organized differently from what fdisk sees, but the warning still is a nuisance (and causes clueless customers to complain about broken partitioning). Please consider adding an option to round partition boundaries to a cylinder boundary optionally to parted. Greetings Marc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
