On 3/1/2023 9:13 AM, tom ehlert wrote:
The reason why partition boundaries are aligned on cylinder boundaries
is that a lot of other OSes also rely on that.
any example of this? I don't any (not completely braindead) operating
system would rely on that; it's just the way that FDISK and friends
place partitions on the disk.
Well, Linux might do this, I am pretty sure older DOS versions do, OS/2
and Windows 9x is likely to do this as well. This was a very common
problem and I know that I was talking with Brian about this when he was
still the maintainer of FDISK, but my current emails for this (and other
FreeDOS related ones) are only going back until 2013 and this was
discussed before that.
A quick Google search before heading out of the office found for example
this:
https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/ubuntu-63/how-to-fix-%27partition-not-end-on-cylinder-boundary%27-768635/
or this
https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/article.100025188
Ralf
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