Partition does not end on cylinder boundary

[JD]

On 06/04/11 09:54, Tom Horsley wrote:
> On Sat, 04 Jun 2011 09:02:48 -0700
> JD wrote:
>
>>   What tool did you use to create the partition in the first place.
>> I thought that fdisk, sfdisk and gparted always round up (or down)
>> to end of cylinder.
> Over the years, I have used lots of different partitioning
> tools, and one thing I have found is that every one of them
> "just knows" the rules that ought to be applied to partitions
> to put them on the "right" boundaries, and every one of those
> tools has different rules and screams and hollers about the
> partitioning generated any of the other tools :-).
>
> Every once in a while, I have tried to search for some
> definitive statement of what the rules really are, and
> I've never found one.
So my question still stands.
What did you use to create the partition :)