[parted-devel] Parted Query

[kamesh waran]

Hi Dev,

I have a scsi drive and used parted to partition with gpt label.
I wanted to create a partition for 1024MB and gave as below
on the command line.

parted /dev/sda mkpart primary ext2 0 1024

I have got the below output. When i listed with unit in sectors,it used only
1999967 secotors which is 1999967*512/1048576 = 976.5 MB.
Why it's created a partition of 976MB when requested was 1024MB.


Disk /dev/sda: 73.4GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: gpt
 
Number  Start   End     Size    File system  Name     Flags
 1      17.4kB  1024MB  1024MB  ext3         primary


/sbin/parted /dev/sdb unit s print
Number  Start   End     Size    File system  Name     Flags
 1       34     2000000 1999967    ext3         primary

Also, is there any way to specify in sectors instead of MB while creating
partition.


Thanks,
Kamesh




		
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