Re: Why start the first partition at 2 MIB, why not at any multiple of 4096 bytes ...

[David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk>]

On Fri 11 Sep 2020 at 13:03:44 (+1000), David wrote:
> On Fri, 11 Sep 2020 at 08:30, David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> wrote:
> > On 2020-09-10 09:44, David Wright wrote:
> 
> > > I don't like parted particularly, and don't know what "free" does.
> > > Can you elucidate?
> 
> > > $ man parted | grep -i free
> > > $ info --output=/dev/stdout --subnodes parted | grep -i free
> 
> > I also am unable to find canonical documentation via RTFM, info, and
> > STFW.  GNU must have missed documenting it (?).
> 
> # parted --help | grep -A 1 free
>   print [devices|free|list,all|NUMBER]     display the partition table,
>         available devices, free space, all found partitions, or a particular
>         partition

It looks as if that just got left out of the man page
which, in other respects, has been condensed to yield
$ /sbin/parted --help

Cheers,
David.