On 03/04/2010 09:50 AM, Tom Buskey wrote: > > > FWIW, BSD (& Solaris) also uses cylinder boundries. 8 slices per disk > (0-7). Slice 2 is the full disk cylinders 0-N and shouldn't be used > for anything. Overlapping cylinders will lead to data loss eventually > and newer versions of Solaris prevent format (not fdisk) from doing > that. I don't remember about the BSD systems. Older BSD based ones > did nothing to prevent self LARTing. > > As I mentioned, I was not aware that Anaconda (gparted) had allocated the boot partition end end in the middle of a cylinder.
Since virtually everything on my system is backed up I think that rather than fighting with what I perceive as a bug in LVM2, I will build my system from scratch. This will fix the cylinder alignment (which is not really an issue at this point). -- Jerry Feldman <g...@blu.org> Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id: 537C5846 PGP Key fingerprint: 3D1B 8377 A3C0 A5F2 ECBB CA3B 4607 4319 537C 5846
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