Problems when creating partitions

[Jimmy Hedman]

Hi,
I'm trying to automaticly create partitions of all the awaiable space on
a disc that could have a partition and my problem shows when all the
disc allready is full of partitions it still creates a small partition
that is one cylinder large.
This is what im trying to do:
testmachine:~# parted /dev/discs/disc0/disc print
Disk geometry for /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disc: 0.000-19623.515
megabytes
Disk label type: msdos
Minor    Start       End     Type      Filesystem  Flags
1          0.031    964.841  primary   ext2        
Information: Don't forget to update /etc/fstab, if
necessary.             

testmachine:~# parted -s /dev/discs/disc0/disc mkpart pri 1 19623.516 
testmachine:~# parted -s /dev/discs/disc0/disc mkpart pri 1 19623.516
Warning: Unable to align partition properly.  This probably means that
another partitioning tool generated an incorrect partition table,
because it didn't have the correct BIOS geometry.  It is safe to
ignore,but ignoring may cause (fixable) problems with some boot loaders.
Warning: You requested to create a partition at 1.000-19623.515Mb. The
closest Parted can manage is 19618.440-19623.515Mb.
testmachine:~# parted -s /dev/discs/disc0/disc print
Warning: Unable to align partition properly.  This probably means that
another partitioning tool generated an incorrect partition table,
because it didn't have the correct BIOS geometry.  It is safe to
ignore,but ignoring may cause (fixable) problems with some boot loaders.
Disk geometry for /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disc: 0.000-19623.515
megabytes
Disk label type: msdos
Minor    Start       End     Type      Filesystem  Flags
1          0.031    964.841  primary   ext2        
2        964.841  19618.439  primary               
3      19618.440  19623.515  primary               



Shouldn't the first parted mkpart create a partition that fills the
entire disc?

// Jimmy


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