bug#22497: parted math - Q2 and Q3 ?

Phil Susi <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.parted.bugs
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 1/30/2016 5:03 PM, Chris Johnson wrote:
> It likely is the case that partition 1 does not nicely end with the last
> sector of cylinder 121599 but instead has some sectors in cylinder
> 121600 and furthermore that partition 9's starting sector is also in
> cylinder 121600 ...
> Is that what's going on here?
> 
> Given that this drive is SSD and the whole cylinder,head,sector thing is
> all a mirage, I assume there is no value to trying to align the
> partitions to cylinder boundaries.

Yes.  The bottom line is: don't use cylinder mode.  It is a 30 year old
anachronism that is now just a lie with no basis in reality.
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