On 06/04/11 17:19, Aaron Konstam wrote: > On Sat, 2011-06-04 at 12:50 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote: >> Does this matter? >> If so, what can you do about it? >> I get it after partitioning with fdisk, >> choosing partitions of size 50GB, etc. >> >> Is it really better to give the block count? >> >> Incidentally, I notice that lshal takes a block as 512B, >> while fdisk has 1kB blocks. > It would be better if partition ends on a cylinder boundary but the > system will still work. > > The block size is determined during the formatting of the partition. > I believe that if the partition does not end on a cylinder boundary, then the file system will end at the immediately previous cylinder boundary. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
