[Bug 985882] Re: units shown are not equal to the units asked for creation

[ceg]

When I had the problem I finally had to turn to CLI-parted to get the
proper numbers. Nothing a graphical tool user may like to do, but I
could work around the problem that way.

Fortunately, I was using the MiB allignment on all newer disks, so they
should have ended up to have the same size as I defined exact MiB, too.

It just feels really wrong if the graphical partitioning tool you are
using asks for information in a unit that it can not supply (without
going into unrelated modes). It would have been no problem if the info
is in the detailed properties. Thus if you could add it there, that
would be great.

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Title:
  units shown are not equal to the units asked for creation

Status in “gparted” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  Try to recreate or clone the OS partition on another harddrive of a
  different size as the original.

  GParted shows only an impresize size of the existing partition such as
  "32.63GB", whereas to create the new partition the exact size in MiB
  is required.

  Hidden in the Properties, gparted does tell the number of sectors in
  the old partition, but that can't be directly used to create the new
  partition either. (V 0.7.0)

  Use case is not to copy but create two disks with same partiton sizes
  (only some of them raid partition clones).

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