Re: Disk addresses in MB

[Mathias Koerber]

--On Tuesday, July 09, 2002 09:47:52 AM +1000 Andrew Clausen 
<address@hidden> wrote:

> So, perhaps only "print" should be affected.
> Also, what's a good interface for setting the default unit?

$PARTED_UNITS, ~/.parted.conf, /usr/lcoal/etc/parted.conf

> > 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..
>
> There is some free space, and some partition table metadata in between.

So how do I know whether I can use that free space etc
(and if, which position [im fractional MBs] to move the
partition to?)

> > Wouldn´t it be much easierand more exact to
> > specify sectors, clusters etc which simply
> > cannot be fractional?
>
> You mean sectors, cylinders, etc.?  Answer: they don't mean much
> to (most) users (including me!).

That too,  and (more useful for me) linear sector numbers,
disk blocks (like fdisk)...

My problem with fractional MBs is that it´s almost impossible to
figure out where *exactly* a partition ends and the next one starts.