* Re: [semi-OT] alignment of partitions at a cylinder boundary
2001-08-21 23:50 [semi-OT] alignment of partitions at a cylinder boundary Rick Hohensee
@ 2001-08-21 23:36 ` Ricky Beam
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From: Ricky Beam @ 2001-08-21 23:36 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Rick Hohensee; +Cc: linux-kernel
On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, Rick Hohensee wrote:
>http://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/linux/Large-Disk-6.html#ss6.2
...
I can get to it just fine:
[cramer:tty3]dragon:~/[7:32pm]:lynx -version
Lynx Version 2.8.3dev.18 (06 Jan 2000)
Built on linux-gnu Feb 7 2000 15:42:47
Copyrights held by the University of Kansas, CERN, and other contributors.
Distributed under the GNU General Public License.
See http://lynx.browser.org/ and the online help for more information.
[cramer:tty3]dragon:~/[7:32pm]:lynx -nocolor 'http://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/linux/Large-Disk-6.html#ss6.2'
# Large Disk HOWTO: Disk geometry, partitions and `overlap' (p4 of 6)
6.2 Cylinder boundaries
A well-known claim says that partitions should start and end at
cylinder boundaries.
Since "disk geometry" is something without objective existence,
different operating systems will invent different geometries for the
same disk. One often sees a translated geometry like */255/63 used by
one and an untranslated geometry like */16/63 used by another OS.
Thus, it may be impossible to align partitions to cylinder boundaries
according to each of the the various ideas about the size of a
cylinder that one's systems have. Also different Linux kernels may
assign different geometries to the same disk. Also, enabling or
disabling the BIOS of a SCSI card may change the fake geometry of the
connected SCSI disks.
Fortunately, for Linux there is no alignment requirement at all.
(Except that some semi-broken installation software likes to be very
sure that all is OK; thus, it may be impossible to install RedHat 7.1
on a disk with unaligned partitions because DiskDruid is unhappy.)
People report that it is easy to create nonaligned partitions in
Windows NT, without any noticeable bad effects.
-- press space for more, use arrow keys to move, '?' for help, 'q' to quit.
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* [semi-OT] alignment of partitions at a cylinder boundary
@ 2001-08-21 23:50 Rick Hohensee
2001-08-21 23:36 ` Ricky Beam
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From: Rick Hohensee @ 2001-08-21 23:50 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linux-kernel
I can't get to
http://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/linux/Large-Disk-6.html#ss6.2
or
http://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb
with Lynx from about a year ago, 2.8something. I suspect a fair portion of
your intended readership would like it to be Lynx-friendly.
HTTP request sent; waiting for response.
Rick Hohensee
www.clienux.com
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* [semi-OT] alignment of partitions at a cylinder boundary
@ 2001-08-21 21:48 Andries.Brouwer
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From: Andries.Brouwer @ 2001-08-21 21:48 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linux-kernel
Recently I had some discussions with people about the need
to align partitions at a cylinder boundary.
Since the details are not documented anywhere that I know of,
I added what I think I know at
http://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/linux/Large-Disk-6.html#ss6.2
Additions and corrections are welcome.
Andries
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