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Re: Problem with minimum partition sizes
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Gareth Bult |
Subject: |
Re: Problem with minimum partition sizes |
Date: |
Wed, 09 Mar 2005 00:39:28 +0000 |
I would be inclined to agree absolutely.
On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 01:51 +1100, Andrew Clausen wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 07, 2005 at 02:43:36PM +0100, B.Hakvoort wrote:
> > PS. Andrew, could you please elaborate a bit about why a partition should
> > be rounded to cylinderboundaries? I've always been told this is a good
> > thing, but i don't know exactly why ;) thanks!
>
> There's a few reasons why cylinder alignment is good:
> (1) Old versions of MSDOS require it.
> (2) It means it's less likely for a partition program to get CHS
> stuff wrong.
> (3) Partition Magic and Norton Ghost seem to require it.
>
> (Did I miss anything?)
>
> These aren't very compelling reasons, IMHO, and it would be reasonable
> to permit users to override cylinder alignment.
>
> Cheers,
> Andrew
>
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- Re: Problem with minimum partition sizes, (continued)
- Re: Problem with minimum partition sizes, Gareth Bult, 2005/03/04
- Re: Problem with minimum partition sizes, B.Hakvoort, 2005/03/04
- Re: Problem with minimum partition sizes, Gareth Bult, 2005/03/04
- Re: Problem with minimum partition sizes, B.Hakvoort, 2005/03/04
- Re: Problem with minimum partition sizes, Gareth Bult, 2005/03/04
- Re: Problem with minimum partition sizes, Andrew Clausen, 2005/03/04
- Re: Problem with minimum partition sizes, Gareth Bult, 2005/03/05
- Re: Problem with minimum partition sizes, B.Hakvoort, 2005/03/07
- Re: Problem with minimum partition sizes, Gareth Bult, 2005/03/07
- Re: Problem with minimum partition sizes, Andrew Clausen, 2005/03/08
- Re: Problem with minimum partition sizes,
Gareth Bult <=
- Re: Problem with minimum partition sizes, B.Hakvoort, 2005/03/09
- Re: Problem with minimum partition sizes, Gareth Bult, 2005/03/09
- Re: Problem with minimum partition sizes, K.G., 2005/03/04
- Re: Problem with minimum partition sizes, Gareth Bult, 2005/03/04