Is there some advanced documentation on why parted
is using MBs and how to convert between these so that
exact disk-addresses can be known?
Example:
# /usr/local/sbin/parted /dev/hda print
Disk geometry for /dev/hda: 0.000-11513.250 megabytes
Disk label type: msdos
Minor Start End Type Filesystem Flags
1 0.031 62.753 primary ext3 boot
2 62.754 188.261 primary linux-swap
3 188.262 1686.511 primary ext3
4 1686.511 11507.497 extended
5 1686.542 3184.760 logical ext3
6 3184.792 4180.979 logical ext3
7 4181.010 4683.010 logical ext3
8 4683.041 5185.041 logical ext3
9 5185.072 5687.072 logical ext3
10 5687.104 6087.128 logical ext3
11 6087.160 6487.185 logical ext3
12 6487.216 6785.266 logical ext3
Partition8 ends at 5185.041 and partition 9
starts at 5185.072. What´s with the .031 MB
in between? In some cases, (between 10 and 11)
it´s 0.32MB..
Wouldn´t it be much easierand more exact to
specify sectors, clusters etc which simply
cannot be fractional?
rgds