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Re: end of the drive
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Andrew Clausen |
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Re: end of the drive |
Date: |
Sat, 22 Jan 2005 18:07:22 +1100 |
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Mutt/1.3.28i |
On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 11:44:26PM -0600, Andrew Gaffney wrote:
> What does libparted consider the end of the drive? Is it the physical last
> sector of the drive or the last sector implied by the geometry that parted
> picks for the drive (which sometimes comes out to less sectors than the
> physical amount)?
The former.
> I'm running into a problem where I get "can't create a partition past the
> physical end of the drive" when I delete a partition that goes to the last
> physical sector and try to recreate it. It is very possible that my program
> is passing a sector number that is too high for the end value since it is
> calculated from the position of a GTK+ slider widget. I haven't gotten
> around to debugging that yet, because I've had other issues to deal with.
Note that "end = start + length - 1".
Cheers,
Andrew
- end of the drive, Andrew Gaffney, 2005/01/22
- Re: end of the drive,
Andrew Clausen <=