Package: util-linux Version: 2.17.2-3.1 Severity: normal File: /sbin/sfdisk
Hi, trying to clone a partition table on a freshly installed squeeze system with sfdisk gives the following error: Device Boot Start End #sectors Id System /dev/sdc1 2048 19531775 19529728 fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/sdc2 19531776 3907024064 3887492289 fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/sdc3 0 - 0 0 Empty /dev/sdc4 0 - 0 0 Empty Warning: partition 1 does not end at a cylinder boundary sfdisk: I don't like these partitions - nothing changed. (If you really want this, use the --force option.) The requirement to align to cylinder boundaries has been gone for a long time now. With the introduction of drives with 4k blocks and SSDs with 128k erasure blocks it has become neccessary to align to multiples of those instead. An alignment to 1MiB boundaries seems to become the new standard and is what DI uses in squeeze. Please change the sfdisk behaviour to recognice the new alignmet rules so --force is not required for a perfectly well aligned table. You might even fail with the old CHS alignment if the disk has > 512 byte I/O size (See fdisk -l output). MfG Goswin -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-debian-xen-1 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=de_DE (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages util-linux depends on: ii dpkg 1.15.8.5 Debian package management system ii initscripts 2.88dsf-12 scripts for initializing and shutt ii install-info 4.13a.dfsg.1-5 Manage installed documentation in ii libblkid1 2.17.2-3.1 block device id library ii libc6 2.11.2-5 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii libncurses5 5.7+20100313-3 shared libraries for terminal hand ii libselinux1 2.0.96-1 SELinux runtime shared libraries ii libuuid1 2.17.2-3.1 Universally Unique ID library ii lsb-base 3.2-23.1 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip ii tzdata 2010l-1 time zone and daylight-saving time ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime util-linux recommends no packages. Versions of packages util-linux suggests: ii console-tools 1:0.2.3dbs-69 Linux console and font utilities ii dosfstools 3.0.9-1 utilities for making and checking pn util-linux-locales <none> (no description available) -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org