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Re: Fdisk and unused sectors
Hi,
I had the same problem till I found a way to solve it. fdisk shows you how
many cylinders the disk has. Divide this number through 64 and you get the
basic unit of partitions. Use cylinder numbers wich are whole multiples of
that basic unit and you will get almost no "lost space". all partitions
should be whole multiples of that unit size. Don't forget also that the
first partition starts at cylinder nr. 1 (not 0).
my 2 ag.
Schlomo
On Sun, 25 Apr 1999, Shenderovich, Uri wrote:
> Hi,
> Eventhough I'm using Linux quite a long time , I've never experienced this
> problem.
> I have 6.5Gb Quantum HD.I was trying to partition it with Linux fdisk,but no
> matter how I was trying to play with size of partitions and their ID
> (DOS,Linux,Extended,etc..),I always got warning about unused sectors and
> overlapped partitions.
> As a result , I'm loosing something about 300Mb.
> Somebody has a clue ?
> Thanks
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