Re: Parted 1.6.0-pre8

[Richard Hirst]

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:

address@hidden:/build/parted/parted-1.6.0-pre8$ sudo parted/parted /dev/sdc
GNU Parted 1.6.0-pre8
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Using /dev/sdc
(parted) p
Disk geometry for /dev/sdc: 0.000-4095.856 megabytes
Disk label type: gpt
Minor    Start       End     Filesystem  Name                  Flags
1          0.017     50.000  fat16                             
2         50.000    150.000  fat16                             
6        300.000    400.000                                    
3        700.000    800.000                                    
4       1174.000   4095.840  ext2                              
(parted) mkpartfs primary ext2 800.001 900
(parted) p
Disk geometry for /dev/sdc: 0.000-4095.856 megabytes
Disk label type: gpt
Minor    Start       End     Filesystem  Name                  Flags
1          0.017     50.000  fat16                             
2         50.000    150.000  fat16                             
6        300.000    400.000                                    
3        700.000    800.000                                    
5        800.000    900.000  ext2                              
4       1174.000   4095.840  ext2                              
(parted) mkpartfs primary ext2 900.002 950
(parted) p
Disk geometry for /dev/sdc: 0.000-4095.856 megabytes
Disk label type: gpt
Minor    Start       End     Filesystem  Name                  Flags
1          0.017     50.000  fat16                             
2         50.000    150.000  fat16                             
6        300.000    400.000                                    
3        700.000    800.000                                    
5        800.000    900.000  ext2                              
7        900.000    950.000  ext2                              
4       1174.000   4095.840  ext2                              
(parted) mkpartfs primary ext2 950.100 1000
(parted) p
Disk geometry for /dev/sdc: 0.000-4095.856 megabytes
Disk label type: gpt
Minor    Start       End     Filesystem  Name                  Flags
1          0.017     50.000  fat16                             
2         50.000    150.000  fat16                             
6        300.000    400.000                                    
3        700.000    800.000                                    
5        800.000    900.000  ext2                              
7        900.000    950.000  ext2                              
8        950.000   1000.000  ext2                              
4       1174.000   4095.840  ext2                              
(parted)