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Thu, 10/19/2006 - 4:20pm — Seth (not verified)

one more anomaly re: disk partitioning

After partioning/formatting my thumbdrive using the following command as per the guide:

root@hostname# parted /dev/sda "mklabel msdos mkpartfs primary ext2 0 21 mkpartfs primary ext2 22 -0 set 1 boot on"

I noticed that fdisk reports some partitioning anomalies (see below). Is this something to be concerned about?

  1. root@seth-laptop:/mnt/buildroot/debootstrap# fdisk -l /dev/sda
  2.  
  3. Disk /dev/sda: 503 MB, 503709696 bytes
  4. 16 heads, 61 sectors/track, 1008 cylinders
  5. Units = cylinders of 976 * 512 = 499712 bytes
  6.  
  7.    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
  8. /dev/sda1   *           1          43       20507+  83  Linux
  9. Partition 1 has different physical/logical endings:
  10.      phys=(2, 141, 3) logical=(42, 0, 24)
  11. Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
  12. /dev/sda2              43        1008      471395+  83  Linux
  13. Partition 2 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
  14.      phys=(2, 141, 4) logical=(42, 0, 25)
  15. Partition 2 has different physical/logical endings:
  16.      phys=(61, 60, 62) logical=(1007, 15, 60)
  17. Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary.

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