Bryan Henderson wrote: >> DOS partitions start partitions on odd-numbered sectors > > I don't get this. If you mean partitions defined by the classic DOS > partition table format, then AFAICS, such a partition can start in any > sector. Bryan, Typically the first partition on a DOS partitioned disk starts at the next available sector after the mbr which, for some bizarre reason, is 63 sectors long. Hence: # fdisk -lu /dev/hda Disk /dev/hda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders, total 156301488 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 63 18314099 9157018+ c W95 FAT32 (LBA) /dev/hda2 18314100 19551104 618502+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/hda4 19551105 156296384 68372640 83 Linux > >> so presuming you have odd-aligned disks, life is good. > > What is an odd-aligned disk? s/disk/partition/ ? Perhaps hda1 and hda4 above are examples. Doug Gilbert - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
