On Monday 03 Sep 2012 23:34:34 C Anthony Risinger wrote: > 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 Thanks, excellent tip. I wasn't aware of the mib option. Paul
