How to list start and end sectors of a partition by parted in Linux?

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How to list start and end of a partition by the sectors in parted on Linux? The default behavior seems be listing the start and end by bytes in parted.

# parted /dev/sdc print
Model: Innostor IS888 ext. HDD (scsi)
Disk /dev/sdc: 2000GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: gpt
Disk Flags: 

Number  Start   End     Size    File system  Name  Flags
 1      2097kB  2000GB  2000GB  ext4         home

parted has a unit command to specify the unit to use.

unit unit

Set unit as the unit to use when displaying locations and sizes, and for interpreting those given by the user when not suffixed with an explicit unit. unit can be one of “s” (sectors), “B” (bytes), “kB”, “MB”, “MiB”, “GB”, “GiB”, “TB”, “TiB”, “%” (percentage of device size), “cyl” (cylinders), “chs” (cylinders, heads, sectors), or “compact” (megabytes for input, and a human-friendly form for output).

For sectors, the unit is “s”.

To print the stand and end sections of a disk such as sda, the command will be

parted /dev/sda 'unit s print'

Example:

# parted /dev/sda 'unit s print'
Model: ATA ST2000DM001-1CH1 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 3907029168s
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/4096B
Partition Table: gpt
Disk Flags: 

Number  Start        End          Size         File system  Name  Flags
 1      4096s        1229064191s  1229060096s               data
 3      1229064192s  3907029134s  2677964943s

Eric Ma

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