bug#36908: parted optimal alignment fails minimal alignment check

2019-08-06 Thread Georgy Fedorov
Perfect! That's exactly what I had in mind. As for the version -- I have noticed that the most recent release at ftp.gnu.org/gnu/parted is a little old -- but it still was the most recent release, so I went with that. My apologies. Kind regards, George On 6/8/19 2:01 am, Brian C. Lane wrote

bug#36908: parted optimal alignment fails minimal alignment check

2019-08-06 Thread Georgy Fedorov
Thank you -- that's a very good point. Just in case if this thread would get indexed, I would add a reference for usb-storage quirks: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.html ( search for "usb-storage.quirks=" ) Kind regards, George On 4/8/19 2:15 am, Volta w

bug#36908: parted optimal alignment fails minimal alignment check

2019-08-05 Thread Brian C. Lane
On Sat, Aug 03, 2019 at 12:26:56PM +, George Fedorov wrote: > Hi, > > > I was directed here by the page at > https://www.gnu.org/software/parted/bugs.shtml ; is there any bugreport > tracker where one can file a bug instead ? > > > Anyway, here's the problem ( manifested in parted 3.2 com

bug#36908: parted optimal alignment fails minimal alignment check

2019-08-03 Thread Volta
I'm not a parted dev, just a user, but I've run into this same issue several times. This wouldn't happen to be a USB device using the UAS driver? IME setting quirks mode for such devices so they use the usb-storage driver instead yields sensible values for optimal_io_size, etc. so parted can do th

bug#36908: parted optimal alignment fails minimal alignment check

2019-08-03 Thread George Fedorov
Hi, I was directed here by the page at https://www.gnu.org/software/parted/bugs.shtml ; is there any bugreport tracker where one can file a bug instead ? Anyway, here's the problem ( manifested in parted 3.2 coming with Ubuntu 18.04 and checked vs. a manual build of the sources from http://