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#20909
incorrect partition size calculation
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Reported by: Gena Makhomed <gmm <at> csdoc.com>
Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2015 06:00:12 UTC
Severity: normal
Done: Phil Susi <psusi <at> ubuntu.com>
Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.
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Message #16 received at 20909-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):
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.
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