On Sat, Sep 15 2012, Kerin Millar wrote: > Philip Webb wrote: >> Yes, iff you partition the whole disk that way. >> I don't know whether Dell + M$ located their partitions correctly >> or whether Fdisk will start at the proper place when adding more. > > Microsoft have been doing the right thing since Vista SP1,
I remember the bad days (me et al) when it was a pain to get the windows partition shrunk and willing to accept a grub mbr. I always allocated a whole day (alone, since I would be grouchy) to do that and often needed more time. I think it was around vista, where it just became easy. It was certainly easy with the current windows 7. > long before the Linux ecosystem pulled its collective head out of the > sand. Regarding the available partitioning tools, fdisk from > util-linux-2.18 onwards is safe. Gentoo was extremely slow on the > uptake in getting this issue resolved but that's water under the > bridge now. Any release media from around the time bug #356941 was > closed will be safe. I used a live CD from nov 3 2011 livecd ~ # uname -a Linux livecd 3.0.6-gentoo #1 SMP Thu Nov 3 12:50:42 UTC 2011 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3520M CPU @ 2.90GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux > I usually validate the starting boundary of a partition in this fashion: > > echo $(( 64538624 % 8 )) # 0 == 1MiB aligned == good right. I used emacs calc. allan
