Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary
jim
jim at well.com
Wed Feb 23 20:46:40 UTC 2011
I have experienced this and find it worrisome.
Is the report bogus or true. If true, what is the
state of the remainder of the cylinder (no other
partition shows such overlap, I'm guessing the
part is not used and may be the sector used by
the MBR).
On Wed, 2011-02-23 at 13:15 -0500, Asif Iqbal wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just installed lucid 64bit server and looks like /boot partition
> overlaps. I built few other
> lucid 64bit server. They all show the same overlap.
>
> # fdisk -l /dev/sda
>
> Disk /dev/sda: 146.0 GB, 145999527936 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 17750 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
> I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
> Disk identifier: 0x0008911b
>
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/sda1 * 1 31 242688 83 Linux
> Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
> /dev/sda2 31 17750 142332928 8e Linux LVM
>
>
> How do I fix it? Also is there a way to install lucid and make sure it
> does not overlap the cylinders?
>
> --
> Asif Iqbal
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> A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
> Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
>
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