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On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 4:37 PM, Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> There's a few small downsides I've run into with all of this so far: |
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> 1) Since we don't use sector 63 it seems that fdisk will still tell |
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> you that you can use 63 until you use up all your primary partitions. |
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> It used to be easier to put additional partitions on when it gave you |
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> the next sector you could use after the one you just added.. Now I'm |
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> finding that I need to write things down and figure it out more |
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> carefully outside of fdisk. |
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Replying mostly to myself, WRT the value 63 continuing to show up |
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after making the first partition start at 64, in my case since for |
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desktop machines the first partition is general /boot, and as it's |
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written and read so seldom, in the future when faced with this problem |
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I will likely start /boot at 63 and just ensure that all the other |
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partitions - /, /var, /home, etc., start on boundaries divisible by 8. |
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It will make using fdisk slightly more pleasant. |
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- Mark |
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