Larry Dickson wrote:
We have considerable experience getting parted to work. Basically, the
distinction between primary and extended partitions is not needed, nor are
partition types. There are other subtle differences too. Very annoyingly,
Correct.
SOME versions of parted interpret megabytes and even kilobytes (but not
Older versions, right?
sectors) as decimal only. For these you have to use unit B (bytes) to regain
control. Experiment a little, to see what uses counting from 1 or counting
from 0, and what uses last-index or total-size, as these off-by-1 errors can
be killer.
If you find problems like this with recent versions then please let us
know via the parted mailing lists:
http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/lists.shtml
Ironing out the UI inconsistencies in parted is one of the areas that
we are keen to improve at the moment so if you hit issues like this,
we would very much like to hear about them.
Regards,
Bryn.
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