As reported here: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.security.ipcop.devel/14703
I think I found a bug in parted. Usind cylinder alignment and 0% as start, parted puts the start at sector 1 if the end of the partition is < 1028MB or < 611MiB. It doesn't happen using GB and GiB units and only 'cylinder' alignment is affected. ------------------ # parted -v parted (GNU parted) 2.3 Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>. This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Written by <http://git.debian.org/?p=parted/parted.git;a=blob_plain;f=AUTHORS>. ------------------ # parted -s /dev/sda mklabel msdos # parted -a cylinder -s /dev/sda mkpart primary 0% 610MiB # parted /dev/sda u s print Model: ATA SAMSUNG HD161HJ (scsi) Disk /dev/sda: 312579695s Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B Partition Table: msdos Number Start End Size Type File system Sinalizador 1 1s 1249280s 1249280s primary # parted -s /dev/sda mklabel msdos # parted -a cylinder -s /dev/sda mkpart primary 0% 611MiB # parted /dev/sda u s print Model: ATA SAMSUNG HD161HJ (scsi) Disk /dev/sda: 312579695s Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B Partition Table: msdos Number Start End Size Type File system Sinalizador 1 63s 1253069s 1253007s primary ------------------ # parted -s /dev/sda mklabel msdos # parted -a cylinder -s /dev/sda mkpart primary 0% 1027MB # parted /dev/sda u s print Model: ATA SAMSUNG HD161HJ (scsi) Disk /dev/sda: 312579695s Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B Partition Table: msdos Number Start End Size Type File system Sinalizador 1 1s 2005859s 2005859s primary # parted -s /dev/sda mklabel msdos # parted -a cylinder -s /dev/sda mkpart primary 0% 1028MB # parted /dev/sda u s print Model: ATA SAMSUNG HD161HJ (scsi) Disk /dev/sda: 312579695s Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B Partition Table: msdos Number Start End Size Type File system Sinalizador 1 63s 2008124s 2008062s primary ------------------ _______________________________________________ bug-parted mailing list bug-parted@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-parted
