Re: Problems when creating partitions

[Jimmy Hedman]

The problen is not that it refuses the first time, that was what i
expected, the problem is that it _do_ create a parition when i run it
the second time.

// Jimmy


On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 13:27, Andrew Clausen wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 05:01:05PM +0200, Jimmy Hedman wrote:
> > testmachine:~# parted -s /dev/discs/disc0/disc mkpart pri 1 19623.516 
> >
> > Shouldn't the first parted mkpart create a partition that fills the
> > entire disc?
> 
> Parted refuses to create partitions in the last little bit of a hard
> disk with msdos partition tables.  This might cause problems with other
> partitioning programs.
> 
> The error message isn't particularly helpful... this is a sympton
> of Parted's constraint solving architecture :/
> 
> Cheers,
> Andrew
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