William L. Maltby wrote on Mon, 21 Apr 2008 12:06:06 -0400: > As to loss, maybe yes. When you allocate using multipliers, (10GB, > 100MB, etc.) the bytes per cylinder is used as a divisor. This *may* > leave some part of a cylinder unused at the end. With todays drive > sizes, even anal me doesn't worry about it anymore.
well, I was wondering about that when I wanted to duplicate a partition and I wasn't able to get exactly the same block size in fdisk, neither with size in GB nor with last cylinder. Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
