Re: Fdisk should favor partitions with page-aligned size

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El Wed, 16 Feb 2011 14:34:59 +0100
Karel Zak <kzak@xxxxxxxxxx> escribiÃ:
> > From what I saw in the code, now fdisk tries to create partitions
> > that ends at cylinder boundary, so I'm not sure if it would be
> > possible to conciliate both strategies.
> 
>  Not true, the "cylinder boundary" is enabled for dos compatible mode
>  only.  This mode is not used by default. The current code uses 1MiB
>  grain or the optimal (or minimal) I/O size as reported by the
> device. 
> 

You're right, I was looking at old code, sorry. So it seems its just a
matter of time, when all distributions feature >2.17 versions of
util-linux-ng, this will be no longer a problem.

Thanks!
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