Re: Sysinst creates gaps between GPT partitions - why?

[Matthias Petermann <mp%petermann-it.de@localhost>]

Hello Martin,

Am 03.08.2020 um 11:15 schrieb Martin Husemann:
> On Mon, Aug 03, 2020 at 11:08:22AM +0200, Matthias Petermann wrote:
> >             2          32         Pri GPT table
> >            34        2014         Unused
>
> That part is expected...
>
> >          2048      262144      1  GPT part - EFI System
>            ~~~~
>
> ... to align the start here.
>
> >        264192        2048         Unused
>                        ~~~~
> but this sounds like a bug in the alignment code. I'll have a look.

thanks - I will stay tuned on this. Please let me know if you want me to 
test something.

> The other part (gpt(8) being user unfriendly) I'll leave to somebody else.

I hope I have not talked too badly about the GPT tool :-) As long as it 
is logical what it does - and that is how it seems at the moment - it is 
not too unfriendly. My expectations for a low level tool are probably 
too high.


Kind regards
Matthias