On Tue, 7 Dec 2010, Doug Barton wrote:

On 12/07/2010 03:51, Bruce Cran wrote:
 From a new installation of Windows 7 and FreeBSD CURRENT:

GEOM: ada0: partition 3 does not start on a track boundary.
GEOM: ada0: partition 3 does not end on a track boundary.
GEOM: ada0: partition 2 does not start on a track boundary.
GEOM: ada0: partition 2 does not end on a track bounary.

Partition 2 is the reserved partition while 3 is an NTFS partition, both
created in the Windows setup application.

Since Windows isn't bothering to align partitions do we still need to
warn about it?

It would be great to remove this warning. I see the same problem with partitions created by Linux, which uses the Windows'y version of CHS.

GEOM_PART spews warnings like this (IIRC the same ones) for partitions
created by FreeBSD when FreeBSD actually knew the correct (fictitious
BIOS) geometry.  Killing GEOM_PART stopped them.  Note that GEOM_PART is
inflicted by conf/DEFAULTS, at least for i386.

# Kill bad default options.
nooptions       GEOM_PART_BSD
nooptions       GEOM_PART_EBR
nooptions       GEOM_PART_EBR_COMPAT
nooptions       GEOM_PART_MBR

# Add non-default options.
options         GEOM_BSD
options         GEOM_MBR

GEOM_PART also gave weirdness for FreeBSD partitions, with multiple device
entries for some partitions and other aliasing bugs.

Bruce
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