Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.,why is this?

cola · 01-28-2010, 08:28 PM

fdisk -l

/dev/sda1
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sda2
Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary.
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Is there any way to fix it?

joseph2020 · 01-29-2010, 01:22 AM

I don't know what causes it, but you can probably fix it with gparted (a partition manager that comes with some Linux distros). With Gparted take a look and see if you can just adjust the partition sizes.

jschiwal · 01-29-2010, 01:47 AM

It isn't anything that neccessarily needs fixing. You just need to know that the results of fdisk -l contain rounding errors.

Use "fdisk -lu" to see the boundaries of the partitions in 512 byte sectors.

JZL240I-U · 01-29-2010, 07:32 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jschiwal

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You might ask a spelling alouette ... *runs away*

Who, of the younger generations here, might understand you allusion?