On Fri, 22 Dec 2000 11:26:30 +0800 (SGT), Gregory Hosler wrote:

>no, it's not a "bad" thing. It means that due to the sizes you specified for
>the partition, fdisk needed to allocate part of a cylinder (and the rest of
>that cylinder is waster/unused).
>
>This is your clue (when you are running fdisk) that you might want to increase
>the size of the partition, to be able to claim the rest of the cylinder. (it's
>essentially free space that otherwise goes unused).

Ok...fine and well...but doesn't the next partition take up the slack
on that cylinder?




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