It's not artificial since this the cylindersize is calculated from the CHS
information which in turn is read from the disk.
Hope this makes it clear :)
> Urm,
>
> You're imposing an artificial limitation on the software that prevents
> it from being used.
> How does it make sense ?
>
> For embedded systems, partitions can easily be less than 8Mb , not only
> do partitions of this size work without a problem, they are *needed* ..
>
> (!)
>
> Gareth.
>
> On Fri, 2005-03-04 at 18:18 +0100, B.Hakvoort wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> For ext2 gparted takes the size of one cylinder as the min size. This
>> makes sense, since partitions are rounded to cylinderboundaries.
>>
>> Bart
>>
>> > Hi
>> >
>> > I'm using gparted 0.0.8 with associated libgparted 1.6.20. (Gentoo)
>> >
>> > There appear to be artificial limits in partition sizes when creating
>> > new partitions, different minimums per partition type.
>> >
>> > Whereas some partitions may have minimum sizes, I *need* to be able to
>> > create 4Mb ext2 partitions (which I can do quite happily using fdisk)
>> ,
>> > yet the apparent minimum in gparted is set to 8Mb. (and it looks like
>> > it's getting this from 'parted')
>> >
>> > Is there easy way of getting around this ?
>> >
>> > If not, any chance of some saner minimum size checking ?
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> > Gareth.
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>>
>>
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