Re: Disk addresses in MB

[Yury Umanets]

Mathias Koerber wrote:

> Ihave just started looking into parted and
> am very confused by parted's use of fractional MBs
> to specify and print disk addresses.
> Traditional fdisk shows clusters, sectors etc. 

Parted is more user friendly program. And because of this on my own it 
is using
MB as start/length of partition. MB is more clean for understand for 
just user, not for administrator.
By now Linux more frequantly occurs for desktop purposes.

> Is there some advanced documentation on why parted
> is using MBs and how to convert between these so that
> exact disk-addresses can be known?
>
> Example:
>
> # /usr/local/sbin/parted /dev/hda print
> Disk geometry for /dev/hda: 0.000-11513.250 megabytes
> Disk label type: msdos
> Minor    Start       End     Type      Filesystem  Flags
> 1          0.031     62.753  primary   ext3        boot
> 2         62.754    188.261  primary   linux-swap
> 3        188.262   1686.511  primary   ext3
> 4       1686.511  11507.497  extended
> 5       1686.542   3184.760  logical   ext3
> 6       3184.792   4180.979  logical   ext3
> 7       4181.010   4683.010  logical   ext3
> 8       4683.041   5185.041  logical   ext3
> 9       5185.072   5687.072  logical   ext3
> 10      5687.104   6087.128  logical   ext3
> 11      6087.160   6487.185  logical   ext3
> 12      6487.216   6785.266  logical   ext3
>
> Partition8 ends at 5185.041 and partition 9
> starts at 5185.072. What´s with the .031 MB
> in between? In some cases, (between 10 and 11)
> it´s 0.32MB..
>
> Wouldn´t it be much easierand more exact to
> specify sectors, clusters etc which simply
> cannot be fractional?
>
> rgds


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Yury Umanets