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On Saturday 20 February 2010 13:59:38 Stefan Schulte wrote: |
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> Hi Mick, |
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> AFAIK the asterisk behind the partition just indicates, that it is not |
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> aligned to a cylinder boundary. I think this doesnt have any effect (or |
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> maybe some old OS like DOS depend on it). If you use cfdisk for |
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> partitioning you can avoid that by given the space in c(ylinders). e.g. |
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> New Partition with a size of '100c'. |
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> I guess your hidden partition has something to do with Windows |
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> behaviour, because if you install Windows and create partitions during |
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> the installation process, it also creates an extra 8MB partition. |
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> Maybe gparted adopted that behaviour. |
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> But I can't tell you the reason why. Some people say it's for temp data |
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> (which I doubt) and others say it's used to store metadatas if the user |
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> decides to use flexible disks or software RAIDs. |
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> I just can say that windows is running fine without it on my computer, |
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> because i decided to partition with cfdisk before running the |
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> installation. |
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Thank you both for your responses. I failed to notice that gparted now has a |
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handy 'align on cylinder' tick box. That's what I think shifts partitions |
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along until there is alignment with the cylinder boundary. |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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