[Parted-maintainers] Bug#643625: Bug #643625: Ability to override sector size

[martin f krafft]

also sprach Phillip Susi <psusi at ubuntu.com> [2013.01.19.0448 +1300]:
> Parted already aligns partitions to 1 MiB by default, so it doesn't
> really matter that WD's firmware fails to report the correct hw sector
> size.

That is true. In my case, I need to add a drive to an existing RAID
setup and unless I align the partition at 8k, I don't have enough
blocks to join the RAID. That is because the RAID was created using
tools that do not align at 1Mb.

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