On 21/09/10 22:07, Jon Hardcastle wrote:
Are you sure this is the issue?
Pretty sure.
the number of blocks is different in both measurements see below..
Yes - differing CHS-compatible geometry will do this, because CHS-compatible partitions will start/end on the fake "cylinder" boundaries. So you have different amounts of unnecessary wastage at both the start and the end when using different number of pretend cylinders, heads, and sectors per track...
If there's nothing on the disk yet, then surely you haven't got anything to lose by telling fdisk to use different CHS layouts (using the command line switches) anyway, or just ignoring CHS entirely and using the whole disk - and like I said it's highly unlikely anything on your system ever does anything with CHS block addressing anyway - Linux uses LBA addressing exclusively, and so do its bootloaders.
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