Re: [PATCH] make parted work with geometries specified in sectors

[Andrew Clausen]

On Mon, May 19, 2003 at 11:20:51AM +0200, Balazs Scheidler wrote:
> While trying to use parted noninteractively we stumbled on the problem that
> parted only accepts geometries specified in megabytes. This is a problem as
> the conversion from sectors to MB may lose sectors. (parted writes
> geometries with 3 number precision)

This has been on my TODO list for a while... just there are a few
problems left to solve:

* error messages often include units... these should also be updated.
* could percentages also be specified?  I guess % is a context (device)
dependent unit.

So, I think there should be a ped_set_unit() and ped_get_unit() in
libparted also.  But, this change is mostly orthogonal to the one you
sent.

Thanks,
Andrew