From: zlsiial@uts.mcc.ac.uk (A. V. Le Blanc) Subject: Re: LINUX & DOS coexisting on 1 HD Date: 31 Mar 1993 13:21:49 GMT
In article <1pbqjm$6c8@news.cs.tu-berlin.de> wong@cs.tu-berlin.de (Wolfgang Jung) writes:
>Which is the Best FDISK to use for partition a HD for
>DOS & Linux.
Use the DOS fdisk to make DOS partitions, and the Linux fdisk to make
Linux partitions.
>Linux FDISK (SLS 0.99.6) tells me always when doing the follwoiong steps:
>fdisk->
>u
>n
>Startsektor given by fdisk
>+16M
>
>With this I alwys get the message. Partition has Odd Number of Sectors.
The message is a warning. Linux is unable to use an odd number of sectors
in a partition, and so you are wasting 512 whole bytes. When I wrote
fdisk, I had Linux and DOS on a machine with a 40mb hard disk drive,
and I squeezed every ounce of filestore out of it. But now on one
of my machines, which has an even number of heads, every logical
partition ends up having this message, so I can't avoid it.
>So is there a REAL good PD FDISK available for doing this kind of stuff.
I don't see what the problem is with the Linux fdisk. No other fdisk
will get the Linux kernel to re-read the partition table, for example.
There is a very long README which accompanies the Linux fdisk. It is
a little out of date, but I may be able to update it someday soon,
I hope.
-- Owen
LeBlanc@mcc.ac.uk