[Parted-maintainers] Bug#643623: Unable to set sector size to 4k "advanced format"

[martin f krafft]

Package: gnu-fdisk
Version: 1.2.4-3+b1
Severity: normal

It seems that -b only takes values up to 2k, and the manpage even
discourages its use. The problem is that newer drives use "advanced
format", meaning 4k blocks, but they report 512b blocks. It would be
useful if I could actually tell parted about this, since it fails to
recognise the fact.

Please let -b take a value of 4096. Right now, it displays wrong
values and exits with a floating point exception if I try.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.0.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_NZ, LC_CTYPE=en_NZ.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages gnu-fdisk depends on:
ii  dpkg               1.16.0.3      
ii  install-info       4.13a.dfsg.1-8
ii  libc6              2.13-20       
ii  libncurses5        5.9-1         
ii  libparted0debian1  2.3-8         
ii  libreadline6       6.2-4         
ii  libuuid1           2.19.1-5      

gnu-fdisk recommends no packages.

gnu-fdisk suggests no packages.

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