moving /home , no joy

[Michael Hennebry]

On Mon, 5 May 2008, Aaron Konstam wrote:

> On Sun, 2008-05-04 at 20:53 -0500, Michael Hennebry wrote:

> > Here are the partition tables:
> > root at Knoppix:/media# fdisk -l
> >
> > Disk /dev/hda: 40.0 GB, 40020664320 bytes
> > 16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 77545 cylinders
> > Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes
> >
> >    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> > /dev/hda1   *           1       28449    14337981    c  W95 FAT32
> > (LBA)
> > Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
> > /dev/hda2           28449       28643       97776   83  Linux
> > Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary.
> > /dev/hda3           28643       45307     8398656   83  Linux
> > Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary.
> > /dev/hda4           45307       77545    16248235+   5  Extended
> > /dev/hda5           45307       49182     1952968+  82  Linux swap /
> > Solaris
> > /dev/hda6           49182       62358     6640672+  83  Linux
> > /dev/hda7           62358       77545     7654500   83  Linux
> >
> Howcome your first three partitions do not end on a cylinder boundary?
> That is a deal breaker in my mind.

I don't know.
FC3, FC4, FC6, FC8 and Knoppix (I forget the version) don't mind.

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