Re: Parted 1.6.0-pre8

[Andrew Clausen]

On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 03:05:03PM +0100, Richard Hirst wrote:
> Seems to be some excessive rounding going on for 'print' output, or else
> you shouldn't be displaying to 3 decimal places.  below I create three new
> partitions, starting at 800.001, 900.002, and 950.100; all are displayed
> as starting at ???.000:

Right... parted doesn't have a notion of "precision" in input.
It will deliberately try to eat up free space less than a megabyte
or so.

At some stage, a precision thing would be nice...

Anyway, if you create partitions "in the middle of nowhere", it
will start exactly where you say (if possible)

The motivation is to minimize wasted space between partitions.
This is particularly important for mac's because they require
a partition slot for each free space region as well as for each
partition.

Andrew