hmm, on Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 08:56:24PM +1100, Shane J Pearson said that
> On 13/02/2007, at 8:18 PM, frantisek holop wrote:
>
> >how am i (and fdisk) supposed to make partitions on CHS boundaries
> >if instead of 19457/255/63 fdisk sees the disk as 152627/64/32?
>
> What is the point in trying to align to such boundaries, when the
> physical HDD does not have 255 or 64 heads and those numbers are
> faked due to working around legacy limitations?
fdisk(8):
CAVEATS
Hand crafted disk layouts are highly error prone. MBR partitions should
start on a cylinder boundary (head 0, sector 1), except when starting on
track 0, (these should begin at head 1, sector 1). MBR partitions should
also end at cylinder boundaries.
as far as i know most of the other OSs also align to boundaries.
-f
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