<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div>Hi Dev,<br><br>I have a scsi drive and used parted to partition with gpt label.<br>I wanted to create a partition for 1024MB and gave as below<br>on the command line.<br><br>parted /dev/sda mkpart primary ext2 0 1024<br><br>I have got the below output. When i listed with unit in sectors,it used only<br>1999967 secotors which is 1999967*512/1048576 = 976.5 MB.<br>Why it's created a partition of 976MB when requested was 1024MB.<br><br><br>Disk /dev/sda: 73.4GB<br>Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B<br>Partition Table: gpt<br> <br>Number Start End Size File system Name Flags<br> 1 17.4kB 1024MB 1024MB ext3
primary<br><br><br>/sbin/parted /dev/sdb unit s print<br>Number Start End Size File system Name Flags<br> 1 34 2000000 1999967 ext3 primary<br><br>Also, is there any way to specify in sectors instead of MB while creating<br>partition.<br><br><br>Thanks,<br>Kamesh<br></div></div><br>
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