On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 11:19 PM, C Anthony Risinger <anthony@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > 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 -- C Anthony
