>>> The reason why partition boundaries are aligned on cylinder boundaries >>> is that a lot of other OSes also rely on that. >> any example of this? I don't any (not completely braindead) operating >> system would rely on that; it's just the way that FDISK and friends >> place partitions on the disk. > Well, Linux might do this, I am pretty sure older DOS versions do, OS/2 > and Windows 9x is likely to do this as well.
what "this"? placing partitions on a cylinder boundary? well, FDISK did this as well until now. > This was a very common problem what kind of "problem"? > and I know that I was talking with Brian about this when he was > still the maintainer of FDISK, but my current emails for this (and other > FreeDOS related ones) are only going back until 2013 and this was > discussed before that. Sorry, Brian (in the ~2004 timeframe) was completely, utter clueless about just everything. that's why FDISK is such a mess. citing him as kind of expert doesn't support your case. > A quick Google search before heading out of the office found for example > this: > https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/ubuntu-63/how-to-fix-%27partition-not-end-on-cylinder-boundary%27-768635/ "Not a problem - ignore it." > or this > https://www.veritas.com/support/en_US/article.100025188 ?? again: what kind of problem? not ending on a cylinder boundary is NOT a problem. however it shouldn't be a alignment problem if it would always do. Tom _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
