bug#25813: parted should tell which partition is misaligned

Harald Dunkel <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.parted.bugs
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi folks,

parted 3.2-17 (Debian Unstable) doesn't tell which partition
is misaligned. Sample session:

# parted /dev/sda
GNU Parted 3.2
Using /dev/sda
Welcome to GNU Parted! Type 'help' to view a list of commands.
(parted) u s p
Model: AVAGO MR9361-8i (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 23438819328s
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/4096B
Partition Table: gpt
Disk Flags:

Number  Start       End           Size          File system     Name       Flags
 1      63s         2047s         1985s                         bios_grub  bios_grub
 2      2048s       524287s       522240s       fat16           efi_boot
 3      524288s     67108863s     66584576s     ext4            root
 4      67108864s   603979775s    536870912s    linux-swap(v1)  swap
 5      603979776s  671088639s    67108864s     ext4            none
 6      671088640s  23438817279s  22767728640s  ext4            export

(parted) rm 6
(parted) mkpart export 671088640s -2049s
Warning: The resulting partition is not properly aligned for best performance.
Ignore/Cancel? i
(parted) q
Information: You may need to update /etc/fstab.


Partition 6 is perfectly aligned (320 MiB), so the warning
is very misleading. How about a message like

Warning: Partition 1 is not properly aligned for best performance.


Regards
Harri
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