Partition a Small HD
Since I was bored, I slapped my old 2.5GB HD in my SS20 and
decided to install debian in it. During the installation process, I
was trying to partition the HD and it seems I am having a problem
making the partitions end at the cylinder boundary:
Command (m for help): p
Disk /dev/sda: 19 heads, 80 sectors, 2733 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1520 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 1025 778969 83 Linux
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary:
phys=(1023, 18, 16) should be (1023, 18, 80)
/dev/sda2 1026 1370 262200 82 Linux swap
Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary:
phys=(1023, 18, 16) should be (1023, 18, 80)
/dev/sda3 1371 2733 1035880 83 Linux
Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary:
phys=(1023, 18, 16) should be (1023, 18, 80)
Since I have not done this in millenia (i.e. since SunOS days), how
do I find out where the cylinder boundary is?
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