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10-27-2004, 08:25 AM	#1
Moloko Member Registered: Mar 2004 Location: Netherlands Distribution: Debian Posts: 729 Rep:	Partitioning in sectors - cfdisk Normally partitioning aligns itself along the cylinders in steps of 16065 sectors when entering values in Mb, but cfdisk also allows to enter values in sectors which doesn't follow the cylinders. What are the negative sides of this or doesn't it matter?

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