Re: Units

[David Damerell]

On Wed, 25 Apr 2001, Andrew Clausen wrote:
>David Damerell wrote:
>> I notice that recent parteds work in megabytes, not cylinders.
>> Please, why is this? (Is there some way to change the units?)
>Megabytes are more intuitive, and portable.  (Cylinders are
>non-deterministic, blah blah blah)

It depends, I think; megabytes make sense if you're approaching
partioning as a fresh new task, but if you've used fdisk and friends
it's kind of confusing.

>I intend to add support for different units in 1.5.x...

Great, thanks. We're very fond of parted round here.

>But, feel free to send me a patch ;-)  (Against 1.5.x)

In my copious free time. :-(

[But, seriously; I am not a programmer, alas, except to the trivial
degree that any sysadmin need be.]

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