[parted-devel] Sector of free space partition in msdos labels.

[Joel Granados]

Hi list.

The question of the day is: Where does an msdos label begin?  In sector
0 or in sector 32 or in sector 63?  The answer is: It all depends on
what partitions you have in the table.

little script to prove my point (This is run under latest git master
branch)

<snip>
#!/bin/bash
parted="/usr/local/sbin/parted"
dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=1M count=100
$parted test mklabel msdos
$parted test unit s print free
$parted test mkpart primary 50M 100M
$parted test unit s print free
rm test
</snip>

Notice that the first time the script prints the free space, it starts
in sector 0.  And the second time it prints the free space it begins in
sector 32.  Why, I don't know yet.  Going to start to investigate.  IMO
parted should be consistent as to where the free space begins regardless
of the number of partitions in the table.

Comments appreciated.

Regards.

-- 
Joel Andres Granados
Brno, Czech Republic, Red Hat.