From: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
To: giulioo@pobox.com
Cc: util-linux@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: sfdisk: trying to create aligned partitions: fail
Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2011 09:56:13 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110817075613.GB28856@nb.net.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110817061256.BB29DF815@i3.golden.dom>
On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 08:13:06AM +0200, Giulio wrote:
> Linux 2.6.18-238.12.1.el5
> sfdisk from util-linux 2.20-rc1
> fdisk (util-linux 2.20-rc1)
> 200GB VMware SCSI disk
>
> It seems it's not immediately possible to create aligned partitions (ie:
> starting at 1MB/2048 sectors) with sfdisk.
This is unsupported by sfdisk and cfdisk. You have to use fdisk or
parted.
I'll add a note about it to the man page...
Karel
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-08-17 7:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-08-17 6:13 sfdisk: trying to create aligned partitions: fail Giulio
2011-08-17 7:56 ` Karel Zak [this message]
2011-08-17 9:31 ` Giulio
2011-08-17 12:44 ` Karel Zak
2011-08-17 13:46 ` Giulio Orsero
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