end of the drive

[Andrew Gaffney]

What does libparted consider the end of the drive? Is it the physical last 
sector of the drive or the last sector implied by the geometry that parted picks 
for the drive (which sometimes comes out to less sectors than the physical amount)?

I'm running into a problem where I get "can't create a partition past the 
physical end of the drive" when I delete a partition that goes to the last 
physical sector and try to recreate it. It is very possible that my program is 
passing a sector number that is too high for the end value since it is 
calculated from the position of a GTK+ slider widget. I haven't gotten around to 
debugging that yet, because I've had other issues to deal with.

Even if the problem is on my end, I'd still like to know the answer to the 
question out of curiosity.

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Andrew Gaffney
Gentoo Linux Developer
Installer Project