From unknown Thu Aug 14 17:30:09 2025 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MIME-tools 5.509 (Entity 5.509) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 From: bug#41612 <41612@debbugs.gnu.org> To: bug#41612 <41612@debbugs.gnu.org> Subject: Status: new unit "aligned blocks"? Reply-To: bug#41612 <41612@debbugs.gnu.org> Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2025 00:30:09 +0000 retitle 41612 new unit "aligned blocks"? reassign 41612 parted submitter 41612 Harald Dunkel severity 41612 normal thanks From debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Sat May 30 02:13:35 2020 Received: (at submit) by debbugs.gnu.org; 30 May 2020 06:13:35 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:56800 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1jeukR-0005gV-92 for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 30 May 2020 02:13:35 -0400 Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]:46026) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1jeuNQ-00057j-Hk for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 30 May 2020 01:49:48 -0400 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:54658) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jeuNQ-0008Fj-9v for bug-parted@gnu.org; Sat, 30 May 2020 01:49:48 -0400 Received: from mordac.selfhost.de ([82.98.82.6]:47910 helo=outgoing.selfhost.de) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jeuNP-0000I0-3k for bug-parted@gnu.org; Sat, 30 May 2020 01:49:47 -0400 Received: (qmail 19169 invoked from network); 30 May 2020 05:49:32 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mailhost.afaics.de) (postmaster@xqrsonfo.mail.selfhost.de@79.192.196.116) by mailout.selfhost.de with ESMTPA; 30 May 2020 05:49:32 -0000 Received: from cecil.afaics.de (cecil.afaics.de [10.42.100.186]) by mailhost.afaics.de (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTP id fddf9c08; Sat, 30 May 2020 05:49:31 +0000 (UTC) To: bug-parted@gnu.org From: Harald Dunkel Subject: new unit "aligned blocks"? Message-ID: <4c89c12f-9003-13bf-bc9d-8f06753d0114@afaics.de> Date: Sat, 30 May 2020 07:49:31 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.8.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Received-SPF: none client-ip=82.98.82.6; envelope-from=harri@afaics.de; helo=outgoing.selfhost.de X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: First seen = 2020/05/30 01:49:32 X-ACL-Warn: Detected OS = Linux 2.6.x [fuzzy] X-Spam_score_int: -25 X-Spam_score: -2.6 X-Spam_bar: -- X-Spam_report: (-2.6 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-0.7, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H3=0.001, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_WL=0.001 autolearn=_AUTOLEARN X-Spam_action: no action X-Spam-Score: -2.3 (--) X-Debbugs-Envelope-To: submit X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sat, 30 May 2020 02:13:34 -0400 X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Sender: "Debbugs-submit" X-Spam-Score: -3.3 (---) Hi folks, looking at #41577 I wonder if it would be possible to introduce a unit "aligned blocks" to create partitions with a proper alignement (using alignment_offset and optimal_io_size)? # parted /dev/sda -a optimal : (parted) u s p Model: somedisk Disk /dev/sda: 500118192s Offset: 1536s Block size: 2048s : : (parted) mkpart root 0a 16383a (parted) p : Number Start End Size File system Name Flags 1 1536s 132607s 131072s root Just a suggestion, of course. Regards Harri