Re: sfdisk: trying to create aligned partitions: fail

[Giulio <giulioo@gmail.com>]

On Wed, 17 Aug 2011 09:56:13 +0200, Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com> wrote:

>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.

What is unsupported?

I know sfdisk won't automatically align partitions and didn't expect it to
do it, my email was about sfdisk behaving in an unexpected way:
- not respecting 1MB as start of partition when I ask for it
- creating partitions out of order when using sectors

Maybe I chose the wrong subject, I was trying to align partition manually
and sfidk won't let me do it.

Thanks.