[ale] OT:Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary. (but it is Linux related)
Scott Castaline
skotchman at gmail.com
Thu Feb 11 15:25:16 EST 2010
I've been searching for a definitive answer/solution for this. Below are
outputs from fdisk -l and a partition table listing from expert mode in
fdisk.
[root at ncc1701 ~]# fdisk -l /dev/sda
Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000265ce
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 39 307200 83 Linux
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sda2 39 60801 488076288 83 Linux
Command (m for help): x
Expert command (m for help): p
Disk /dev/sda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 60801 cylinders
Nr AF Hd Sec Cyl Hd Sec Cyl Start Size ID
1 80 1 1 0 63 24 38 63 614400 83
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
2 00 63 25 38 254 63 1023 614463 976152576 83
3 00 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
4 00 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
This is what it looks like in parted:
(parted) print
Model: ATA WDC WD5000AAKS-6 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 500GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos
Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
1 32.3kB 315MB 315MB primary ext4 boot
2 315MB 500GB 500GB primary
Some posts that I've come across indicate no problem while others
indicate that it is an issue and needs to be corrected. sda1 is my /boot
partition ~ 300MB and then sda2 is a LUKS volume with a LVM VG occupying
the rest of the available 500GB hdd. It is my active F 12 system with no
dual boot.
1. Is it a problem?
2.Can I just resize sda1 so the end does not overlap sda2?
3. And can I do this while booted from that system or do I need to do it
from a LiveCD?
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