Bug#863980: parted: improperly claims bad alignment

2017-06-05 Thread Phil Susi
On 6/2/2017 7:11 PM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > alternately, for dealing with this specific case, it seems likely that > -1 is intended to mean "100%". Perhaps parted could just DWIM in that > case ;) -1 actually means to the very last sector of the disk. If you mean 100%, then you need to

Bug#863980: parted: improperly claims bad alignment

2017-06-02 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On Fri 2017-06-02 14:05:26 -0400, Phil Susi wrote: > On 6/2/2017 9:44 AM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: >> Start? 4MiB >> End? -1 >> Warning: The resulting partition is

Bug#863980: parted: improperly claims bad alignment

2017-06-02 Thread Phil Susi
On 6/2/2017 9:44 AM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > Start? 4MiB > End? -1 > Warning: The resulting partition is not properly aligned for best performance. >

Bug#863980: parted: improperly claims bad alignment

2017-06-02 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Package: parted Version: 3.2-17 Severity: normal partition alignment on a sector that is a multiple of 4MiB is aligned with any storage medium i know of. however, parted complains that it is not well-aligned: -- 0 root@alice:~# parted /dev/sdb GNU Parted 3.2 Using /dev/sdb