On Fri, Nov 26, 2021 at 05:57:29PM +0800, lixiaokeng via Bug reports for the 
GNU Parted disk partition editor wrote:
> I parted a disk as:
> 
> parted /dev/sdb -s mklabel msdos
> parted /dev/sdb -s mkpart primary 0cyl 64cyl
> 
> The expected result:
> Number  Start   End    Size   Type     File system  Flags
>  1      1049kB  526MB  525MB  primary
> 
> Fault result:
> Warning: The resulting partition is not properly aligned for best 
> performance: 1s % 2048s != 0s
> 
> Number  Start  End     Size    Type     File system  Flags
>  1      512B   16.7MB  16.7MB  primary
> 
> 
> The fault result is cause by commit 61dd3d4:
> Use BLKSSZGET to get device sector size in _device_probe_geometry()

I would strongly suggest that you don't use cyl as a unit. There is no
good reason to be doing that in 2021.

Brian

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Brian C. Lane (PST8PDT) - weldr.io - lorax - parted - pykickstart




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