Re: [arch-general] How to align partitions?

On Monday 03 Sep 2012 23:34:34 C Anthony Risinger wrote:

On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 11:19 PM, C Anthony Risinger wrote:

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Yuk! :-) I'd only change the unit setting:

u mib

... much simpler than bytes, and then +1 and -1 are always aligned (and appropriate for MBR)

I simply leave ~1mib gap between partitions ... something like:

mkpart pri ... 1 129 mkpart pri ... 130 1154 mkpart pri ... 1155 -1

... seems to work universally.

er, my mistake ... i *used* to leave a 1MiB gap, but as long as the default unit is MiB, and you specify offsets using simple integers, parted will automatically start/end on the correct byte:

(parted) u mib (parted) mkpart pri 1 129 (parted) mkpart pri 129 641 (parted) p [...] Number Start End Size File system Name Flags 1 1.00MiB 129MiB 128MiB 2 129MiB 641MiB 512MiB

(parted) u b (parted) p Number Start End Size File system Name Flags 1 1048576B 135266303B 134217728B 2 135266304B 672137215B 536870912B

Thanks, excellent tip. I wasn't aware of the mib option. Paul