Bart
>
> Gareth.
>
> On Fri, 2005-03-04 at 18:30 +0100, B.Hakvoort wrote:
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>> It's not artificial since this the cylindersize is calculated from the
>> CHS
>> information which in turn is read from the disk.
>>
>> Hope this makes it clear :)
>>
>> > Urm,
>> >
>> > You're imposing an artificial limitation on the software that prevents
>> > it from being used.
>> > How does it make sense ?
>> >
>> > For embedded systems, partitions can easily be less than 8Mb , not
>> only
>> > do partitions of this size work without a problem, they are *needed*
>> ..
>> >
>> > (!)
>> >
>> > Gareth.
>> >
>> > On Fri, 2005-03-04 at 18:18 +0100, B.Hakvoort wrote:
>> >
>> >> Hi,
>> >>
>> >> For ext2 gparted takes the size of one cylinder as the min size. This
>> >> makes sense, since partitions are rounded to cylinderboundaries.
>> >>
>> >> Bart
>> >>
>> >> > Hi
>> >> >
>> >> > I'm using gparted 0.0.8 with associated libgparted 1.6.20. (Gentoo)
>> >> >
>> >> > There appear to be artificial limits in partition sizes when
>> creating
>> >> > new partitions, different minimums per partition type.
>> >> >
>> >> > Whereas some partitions may have minimum sizes, I *need* to be able
>> to
>> >> > create 4Mb ext2 partitions (which I can do quite happily using
>> fdisk)
>> >> ,
>> >> > yet the apparent minimum in gparted is set to 8Mb. (and it looks
>> like
>> >> > it's getting this from 'parted')
>> >> >
>> >> > Is there easy way of getting around this ?
>> >> >
>> >> > If not, any chance of some saner minimum size checking ?
>> >> >
>> >> > Thanks,
>> >> > Gareth.
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