GNU bug report logs - #38474
4M, 12M or 24M partition alignment

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Package: parted;

Reported by: Marcel Partap <mpartap <at> gmx.net>

Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2019 16:44:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: "Brian C. Lane" <bcl <at> redhat.com>

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Report forwarded to bug-parted <at> gnu.org:
bug#38474; Package parted. (Tue, 03 Dec 2019 16:44:01 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.

Acknowledgement sent to Marcel Partap <mpartap <at> gmx.net>:
New bug report received and forwarded. Copy sent to bug-parted <at> gnu.org. (Tue, 03 Dec 2019 16:44:01 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.

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From: Marcel Partap <mpartap <at> gmx.net>
To: bug-parted <at> gnu.org
Subject: 4M, 12M or 24M partition alignment
Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2019 23:10:30 +0100
Dear parted devs,
is there a way to make partition boundaries align to erasure block size presumably used on common USB flash memory chips?
Could it make much of a difference?

Best Regards,
#marcel




Reply sent to "Brian C. Lane" <bcl <at> redhat.com>:
You have taken responsibility. (Mon, 06 Jan 2020 22:51:02 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.

Notification sent to Marcel Partap <mpartap <at> gmx.net>:
bug acknowledged by developer. (Mon, 06 Jan 2020 22:51:02 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.

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From: "Brian C. Lane" <bcl <at> redhat.com>
To: Marcel Partap <mpartap <at> gmx.net>
Cc: 38474-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#38474: 4M, 12M or 24M partition alignment
Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2020 14:50:11 -0800
On Mon, Dec 02, 2019 at 11:10:30PM +0100, Marcel Partap wrote:
> Dear parted devs,
> is there a way to make partition boundaries align to erasure block size presumably used on common USB flash memory chips?
> Could it make much of a difference?

parted only knows about the alignment reported by the device, so if it
reports 512b that's what it will use. There's no way to override this
and have it calculate a different alignment automatically.

But you can use the MiB units to set the sizes yourself so that you can
make them start exactly where you want them.

-- 
Brian C. Lane (PST8PDT) - weldr.io - lorax - parted - pykickstart





bug archived. Request was from Debbugs Internal Request <help-debbugs <at> gnu.org> to internal_control <at> debbugs.gnu.org. (Tue, 04 Feb 2020 12:24:07 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.

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