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On Sat, Sep 15 2012, Kerin Millar wrote: |
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> Philip Webb wrote: |
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>> Yes, iff you partition the whole disk that way. |
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>> I don't know whether Dell + M$ located their partitions correctly |
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>> or whether Fdisk will start at the proper place when adding more. |
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> Microsoft have been doing the right thing since Vista SP1, |
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I remember the bad days (me et al) when it was a pain to get the windows |
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partition shrunk and willing to accept a grub mbr. I always allocated a |
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whole day (alone, since I would be grouchy) to do that and often needed |
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more time. I think it was around vista, where it just became easy. It |
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was certainly easy with the current windows 7. |
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> long before the Linux ecosystem pulled its collective head out of the |
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> sand. Regarding the available partitioning tools, fdisk from |
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> util-linux-2.18 onwards is safe. Gentoo was extremely slow on the |
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> uptake in getting this issue resolved but that's water under the |
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> bridge now. Any release media from around the time bug #356941 was |
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> closed will be safe. |
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I used a live CD from nov 3 2011 |
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livecd ~ # uname -a |
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Linux livecd 3.0.6-gentoo #1 SMP Thu Nov 3 12:50:42 UTC 2011 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3520M CPU @ 2.90GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux |
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> I usually validate the starting boundary of a partition in this fashion: |
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> echo $(( 64538624 % 8 )) # 0 == 1MiB aligned == good |
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right. I used emacs calc. |
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allan |
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