On Samstag 27 Februar 2010, walt wrote: > There's been some talk here recently about partitions versus cylinder > boundaries, and when or even if they need to line up properly. > > I'm confused. For many years now I've ignored "cylinders" completely > because I've read that modern disks are addressed by sector number only, > and disks don't know or care about cylinders. The "cylinder" seems to > be a fiction that sticks around like a drunk who refuses to leave when > the party is over. > > The recent thread about the new disks with 1024-byte sectors has me > even more confused. > > IIUC the new disks *do* care (at least) about where a partition > begins relative to it's own 1024-byte hardware sectors, and that > part makes perfect sense. > > But, to me, that still leaves the "cylinder" as a completely useless > fiction that needs to join MSDOS in the scrap heap of history. > > Am I right to separate the 1024-byte sector problem from "cylinders" > as being two entirely different and orthogonal ideas? > > Is there really any need for the "cylinder" these days? > > Happy Friday :)
no. Until you have to beat fdisk into submission. Yes, cylinders are anachronistic crap. Sadly a lot of tools (and the kernel) are still infected.
