disk image partition tables start at 2048 sectors (1M) not 16065
Bug #1367830 reported by
Scott Moser
This bug affects 1 person
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CirrOS |
Fix Committed
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Low
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Bug Description
currently disk images (0.3.3 and previous) start at sector 16065.
This was probably done because fdisk would warn about not being on cylinder boundaries i'm guessing.
it would make more sense to start partition 1 on 2048.
Related bugs:
* bug 1271205: kpartx / device-mapper errors on small disk
| Changed in cirros: | |
| status: | New → Confirmed |
| importance: | Undecided → Low |
| description: | updated |
| description: | updated |
Revision history for this message
| Scott Moser (smoser) wrote Re: disk image partition tables start at 2048 sectors (1M) not not 16065 | #1 |
| summary: |
- disk image partition tables start at 16065 not 2048 + disk image partition tables start at 2048 sectors (1M) not not 16065 |
| summary: |
- disk image partition tables start at 2048 sectors (1M) not not 16065 + disk image partition tables start at 2048 sectors (1M) not 16065 |
| Changed in cirros: | |
| status: | Confirmed → Fix Committed |
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I believe this is fixed with the commit i made today to bin/part2disk (revno 349).
input to sfdisk is now specified in sectors (--unit=S) and is
2048,,L,*