Re: Problem with minimum partition sizes

[B.Hakvoort]

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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