Partition does not end on cylinder boundary

[JD]

On 06/04/11 17:19, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> 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.
>
I believe that if the partition does not end on a cylinder boundary,
then the file system will end at the immediately previous cylinder
boundary.