[parted-devel] Does parted skips the few sectors from the beginning of disk

[rahul dev]

Guys,

    I am trying to create a partition using parted. I give the following command to create the first partition on my disk.
(parted) mkpart primary ext2 0 1000

It happily creates the partition even if I give starting sector number to be 0.

But, as per my limited knowledege, we have a fake MBR on sector 0 and then the GPT partition table at sector 1. Now, if I give the start sector to be 0 (in my command to create a partition), won't it overwrite the partition table itself, when I create the filesysetm and do IOs on this partition?

Also, we don't have any field "partition number" in any of the command. Suppose if I want to create partition number 3, without having partition 1 and 2, how it can be done using parted?

thanks a lot for any help in advance.
 


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