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| -rw-r--r-- | daemon/parted.c | 24 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 15 deletions
diff --git a/daemon/parted.c b/daemon/parted.c index 2f928b05..89cc0d69 100644 --- a/daemon/parted.c +++ b/daemon/parted.c @@ -178,27 +178,21 @@ do_part_del (const char *device, int partnum) int do_part_disk (const char *device, const char *parttype) { - const char *startstr; - const char *endstr; - parttype = check_parttype (parttype); if (!parttype) { reply_with_error ("unknown partition type: common choices are \"gpt\" and \"msdos\""); return -1; } - /* Voooooodooooooooo (thanks Jim Meyering for working this out). */ - if (STREQ (parttype, "msdos")) { - startstr = "1s"; - endstr = "-1s"; - } else if (STREQ (parttype, "gpt")) { - startstr = "34s"; - endstr = "-34s"; - } else { - /* untested */ - startstr = "1s"; - endstr = "-1s"; - } + /* Align all partitions created this way to 64 sectors, and leave + * the last 64 sectors at the end of the disk free. This wastes + * 32K+32K = 64K on 512-byte sector disks. The rationale is: + * + * - aligned operations are faster + * - GPT requires at least 34 sectors at the end of the disk. + */ + const char *startstr = "64s"; + const char *endstr = "-64s"; RUN_PARTED (return -1, device, |