On Wed, 26 Aug 1998, John Carter wrote:
> Sigh! fdisk is a scary program and near on actively user hostile.
>
> To be fair to its author, the whole @#$! partition design is one of
> the most brain dead idiotic pathetic bit of backward compatibility
> induced madness I've endured.
>
> Thanks IBM and Microsoft.
>
> Now. On to my question. fdisk, and apparently Win95 likes partitions
> to sit on cylinder boundaries. But everybody cheats these days and
> does the right thing and treats the disk as a big array of
> sectors. They cheat by lying about the number of heads.
>
> Now odds on, however you fdisk the damn thing, since the whole geometry
> thing is a scam, your partitions are _not_ going to lie on cylinder
> boundaries as percieved by one OS or the other.
>
> Question.
>
> Does it matter?
I don't think so. The only problem is that you might lose some space,
although it isn't much.
Frank
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> There is ever only one enemy - And that is the military.
> It matters not on which side they purport to be.
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