Partition does not end on cylinder boundary

[John Austin]

On Sat, 2011-06-04 at 10:00 -0700, JD wrote:
> 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 :)
> 
Hi

I've been using gdisk recently -  no hiccups so far

Just installed F15 on an SSD, pre-configuring the disk with
gdisk (F14 version)

Just "normal" partitions (No LVs, ...)

John