The following reply was made to PR misc/146277; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: "Andrey V. Elsukov" <bu7c...@yandex.ru> To: Jeremy Faulkner <gldisa...@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-gnats-sub...@freebsd.org, Marcel Moolenaar <mar...@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: misc/146277: gpart add -s 128M creates 1GB partition on 4k sectorsize disk Date: Tue, 04 May 2010 08:59:13 +0400 On 04.05.2010 4:24, Jeremy Faulkner wrote: >> Description: > When using gpart to create a GPT partition on a device that has a sector > size of 4k it will > create a partition that is much larger than requested. It appears to be > using 512 sector size to > calculate the number of sectors to allocate even when the sector size is not > 512. >> How-To-Repeat: > gnop create -S 4k<disk or partition> gpart create -s GPT<gnop'd disk or > partition> gpart add -s > 512M -t freebsd-swap<gnop'd disk or partition> > > gpart will create a 4GB partition instead of a 512M partition This is known issue. When gpart(8) parses arguments it doesn't know about medium's sector size. -- WBR, Andrey V. Elsukov _______________________________________________ freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-bugs To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-bugs-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
