Partition does not end on cylinder boundary

Timothy Murphy gayleard at eircom.net
Sat Jun 4 11:50:12 UTC 2011


Does this matter?
If so, what can you do about it?
I get it after partitioning with fdisk,
choosing partitions of size 50GB, etc.

Is it really better to give the block count?

Incidentally, I notice that lshal takes a block as 512B,
while fdisk has 1kB blocks.

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