[parted-devel] [PATCH] parted: improve snapping to boundaries of free space

[Phil Susi]

On 10/23/2015 10:08 AM, Petr Uzel wrote:
> When creating a new partition, parted tries to snap its boundaries.
> If the new partition lies within free space, it only makes sense
> to snap it so that is it bigger, not smaller.

I had flagged this to look at and forgot about it for a while.  Why do
you say that it only makes sense to snap it bigger?

If you create a partition in the middle of a wide open free space, why
shouldn't it become slightly larger to fit the alignment?