[Parted-maintainers] Bug#706023: parted: mkpart screws up value if start is 1 plus a unit

[Phillip Susi]

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On 4/23/2013 11:11 AM, Len Sorensen wrote:
> Package: parted Version: 2.3-12 Severity: normal Tags: upstream
> 
> If you try to create a partition starting at 1MiB and ending at the
> end of the disk by doing:
> 
> mkpart primary 1MiB -1s
> 
> You can a warning about alignment (which is obviously wrong given
> 1MiB is perfectly aligned), and the start is instead 63s.

It looks like this was fixed upstream in commit 18e727d4 - libparted:
fix snap radius so that it is using half, which is a simple one line
change:

diff --git a/libparted/unit.c b/libparted/unit.c
index dc4205b..c2921e3 100644
- --- a/libparted/unit.c
+++ b/libparted/unit.c
@@ -533,7 +533,7 @@ ped_unit_parse_custom (const char* str, const
PedDevice* dev, PedUnit unit,
        }

        unit_size = ped_unit_get_size (dev, unit);
- -       radius = ped_div_round_up (unit_size, dev->sector_size) - 1;
+       radius = (ped_div_round_up (unit_size, dev->sector_size) / 2) - 1;
        if (radius < 0)
                radius = 0;
        /* If the user specifies units in a power of 2, e.g., 4MiB, as in


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