moving /home , no joy

[Roger Heflin]

Michael Hennebry wrote:
> 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.
> 

The partition having to end on a cylinder boundary is only for compatibility 
with older bioses that actually access the disks that way.   I believe anything 
using LBA does not care about it.

I don't believe any recent OSes care about the cylinder boundaries since they 
are being faked anyway and have absolutely nothing to do with real disk geometry.

                              Roger