Bug 436584

Summary:	parted partitioning creates problems
Product:	[OLD] Docs on www.gentoo.org	Reporter:	Dirkjan Ochtman (RETIRED) <djc>
Component:	Installation Handbook	Assignee:	Docs Team <docs-team>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Dirkjan Ochtman (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2012-09-29 10:47:27 UTC

In the handbook, it's suggested that fdisk or parted could be used for partitioning. Thinking I'd opt for the newer tool, I tried using parted. However, the instructions in the handbook have appeared to be suboptimal in two ways: they don't create partition boundaries on sector boundaries (I'm not sure how important that is, but it looks a bit sloppy) and they don't leave a post-MBR gap (which causes problems with grub2 for certain, and might also have caused problems with grub legacy, which led me to trying grub2 in the first place).

Using fdisk per the instructions in the handbook didn't create these problems.

Comment 1 Sven Vermeulen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2012-10-31 18:40:11 UTC

I've seen a report on this before (see duplicate) and am waiting for feedback from the architecture teams on this. I don't have much experience with boundaries and how they reflect on the various architectures.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 437338 ***