On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 11:31:56AM +0200, Giulio wrote:
> I know sfdisk won't automatically align partitions and didn't expect it to
> do it, my email was about sfdisk behaving in an unexpected way:
> - not respecting 1MB as start of partition when I ask for it
> - creating partitions out of order when using sectors
Try --in-order command line option, the option is undocumented in old
versions ;-(
sfdisk --in-order -L -uM /dev/sdb <<-EOF
1,10,83
,,83
;
;
EOF
result (output from fdisk):
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 2048 22527 10240 83 Linux
/dev/sdb2 22528 204799 91136 83 Linux
sfdisk --in-order -L -uS /dev/sdb <<-EOF
2048,8000,83
,,83
;
;
EOF
result (output from fdisk):
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 2048 10047 4000 83 Linux
/dev/sdb2 10048 204799 97376 83 Linux
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