alignment of partitions at a cylinder boundary
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.
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Rick Hohensee
www.clienux.com
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I can get to it just fine:
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[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.
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