Partition does not end on cylinder boundary
Aaron Konstam
akonstam at sbcglobal.net
Sun Jun 5 00:19:27 UTC 2011
On Sat, 2011-06-04 at 12:50 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> 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.
It would be better if partition ends on a cylinder boundary but the
system will still work.
The block size is determined during the formatting of the partition.
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