On Mon, 21 Dec 2009 12:55:15 +0100 Jan Stary <[email protected]> wrote: > On Dec 21 08:49:29, Robert wrote: > > Hi, > > > > adding slices using a size with units (eg: 200g), disklabel rounds > > the size to the nearest cylinder. > > I recon this is so the next slice starts at the beginning of a > > cylinder. > > > > What would break if disklabel wouldn't do that rounding? > > Is it still a requirement on Sparc? > > Ok to ignore the cylinder boundaries on x86? > > OK to ignore the whole topic and let disklabel do its job.
So you don't know. But that's ok. Me neither, that's why i asked. (If you are interested, using a calculator and giving the size in sectors not using a unit, doesn't get the rounding treatment and appears to works just fine, on amd64 that is.) Let me rephrase and remove disklabel from the question: What would break if slices don't start on a cylinder boundary? - Robert
