bug#52125: closed (bug: parted msdos type disk different from expect)

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> bug: parted msdos type disk different from expect
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> Fri, 26 Nov 2021 17:57:29 +0800
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> I parted a disk as:
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> parted /dev/sdb -s mklabel msdos
> parted /dev/sdb -s mkpart primary 0cyl 64cyl
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> The expected result:
> Number  Start   End    Size   Type     File system  Flags
>  1      1049kB  526MB  525MB  primary
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> Fault result:
> Warning: The resulting partition is not properly aligned for best performance: 
> 1s % 2048s != 0s
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> Number  Start  End     Size    Type     File system  Flags
>  1      512B   16.7MB  16.7MB  primary
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> The fault result is cause by commit 61dd3d4:
> Use BLKSSZGET to get device sector size in _device_probe_geometry()
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> On Fri, Nov 26, 2021 at 05:57:29PM +0800, lixiaokeng via Bug reports for the 
> GNU Parted disk partition editor wrote:
> > I parted a disk as:
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> > parted /dev/sdb -s mklabel msdos
> > parted /dev/sdb -s mkpart primary 0cyl 64cyl
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> > The expected result:
> > Number  Start   End    Size   Type     File system  Flags
> >  1      1049kB  526MB  525MB  primary
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> > Fault result:
> > Warning: The resulting partition is not properly aligned for best 
> > performance: 1s % 2048s != 0s
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> > Number  Start  End     Size    Type     File system  Flags
> >  1      512B   16.7MB  16.7MB  primary
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> > The fault result is cause by commit 61dd3d4:
> > Use BLKSSZGET to get device sector size in _device_probe_geometry()
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> I would strongly suggest that you don't use cyl as a unit. There is no
> good reason to be doing that in 2021.
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> Brian
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> Brian C. Lane (PST8PDT) - weldr.io - lorax - parted - pykickstart
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