[Parted-maintainers] Bug#593689: parted: ignores start point on a msdos disklabel

[Marc Haber]

Package: parted
Version: 2.3-1
Severity: normal

Hi,

When I'm asking parted to begin a primary partition at 1 MB into the
disk, it silently ignores this request and starts the partition at
sector 63 anyway.

See:
$ parted --script /dev/sda print free
Model: ATA HITACHI_DK23FB-4 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 40.0GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos

Number  Start   End     Size    Type  File system  Flags
        32.3kB  40.0GB  40.0GB        Free Space

$ parted --script /dev/sda unit s print free
Model: ATA HITACHI_DK23FB-4 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 78140160s
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos

Number  Start  End        Size       Type  File system  Flags
        63s    78140159s  78140097s        Free Space

$ parted --script /dev/sda unit MB mkpart primary ext2 1 1001
$ parted --script /dev/sda print free
Model: ATA HITACHI_DK23FB-4 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 40.0GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos

Number  Start   End     Size    Type     File system  Flags
 1      32.3kB  1001MB  1001MB  primary  ext3
        1001MB  40.0GB  39.0GB           Free Space

$ parted --script /dev/sda unit s print free
Model: ATA HITACHI_DK23FB-4 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 78140160s
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos

Number  Start     End        Size       Type     File system  Flags
 1      63s       1955078s   1955016s   primary  ext3
        1955079s  78140159s  76185081s           Free Space

When I use "unit s", parted works as advertised.

Greetings
Marc

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Versions of packages parted depends on:
ii  libblkid1                 2.17.2-3.1     block device id library
ii  libc6                     2.11.2-2       Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libdevmapper1.02.1        2:1.02.48-2    The Linux Kernel Device Mapper use
ii  libncurses5               5.7+20100313-2 shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libparted0debian1         2.3-1          The GNU Parted disk partitioning s
ii  libreadline6              6.1-3          GNU readline and history libraries
ii  libuuid1                  2.17.2-3.1     Universally Unique ID library

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ii  parted-doc                    2.3-1      The GNU Parted disk partition resi

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