bug#20909: incorrect partition size calculation
Phil Susi <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.gnu.parted.bugs |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On 6/29/2015 2:37 PM, Gena Makhomed wrote: >> You are off by 1. start and end are inclusive so the size of sda4 is: >> >> 1 + (7814037134 - 102764544) = 7711272591 >> Closing for this reason. > BTW, "start and end are inclusive" - IMHO is very bad decision, > because now it is not possible to partition disk using MiB units > and always need use sectors and make all calculations manually. No.. MiB units work just fine. > for example, parted -s /dev/sda mkpart primary 34s 1MiB > now use one sector from second MiB and next partition > will be created as unaligned. No, it doesn't... the partition ends on sector 2047, so the next partition can start on sector 2048.