1MiB boundaries are optimal for they also align with 128KiB and 256KiB which could be used in solid disk hardware.
Now how to do this using fdisk: My thought of using of 32 heads and 64 sectors per cylinder doesn't work for older fdisk versions (openSUSE11.2). Let's try the other way round: "fdisk -L -H 64 -S 32 /dev/sdb" I did create an new empty DOS partition table with "o". And I started the first partition at cylinder 2 This looks like: ---------------------- r...@maci:/etc# fdisk -L -l /dev/sdb GNU Fdisk 1.2.4 .... Disk /dev/sdb: 4 GB, 4127195136 bytes 64 heads, 32 sectors/track, 3936 cylinders Units = cylinders of 2048 * 512 = 1048576 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdb1 2 935 957408 c FAT32 LBA /dev/sdb2 * 936 3936 3072000 83 Linux ---------------------- Now showing with sector numbers: ---------------------- r...@maci:/etc# fdisk -L -l -u /dev/sdb GNU Fdisk 1.2.4 .... Disk /dev/sdb: 4 GB, 4127195136 bytes 64 heads, 32 sectors/track, 3936 cylinders, total 8060928 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdb1 2048 1914879 957408 c FAT32 LBA /dev/sdb2 * 1914880 8060927 3072000 83 Linux ---------------------- I think such a restriction when partitioning should be totally compatible with Vista/Win7 and should be performant using any of the solid state disks. ... But I don't know how to consider an offset of -1 of some of those disks :( -- partitioning using mb boundaries https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/521045 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
