Am Dienstag, 9. Februar 2010 schrieb Mark Knecht:

> 4) Everything I've done so far leave me with messages about partition
> 1 not ending on a cylinder boundary. Googling on that one says don't
> worry about it. I don't know...

Would that be when there’s a + sign behind the end sector? I believe to
remember that _my_ fdisk didn’t show this warning, only parted did.

Anyway, mine's like this, just to throw it into the pot to the others
( those # are added by me to show their respective use )

eisen # fdisk -l -u /dev/sda

Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders, total 976773168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x80178017

 Device Boot   Start      End    Blocks  Id System
/dev/sda1  *      63   25157789   12578863+  7 HPFS/NTFS # Windows
/dev/sda2     25157790   88084394   31463302+  7 HPFS/NTFS # Win Games
/dev/sda3     88084395  127941659   19928632+ 83 Linux   # /
/dev/sda4    127941660  976768064  424413202+  5 Extended
/dev/sda5    127941723  288816569   80437423+ 83 Linux   # /home
/dev/sda6    288816633  780341309  245762338+ 83 Linux   # music
/dev/sda7    813113973  976703804   81794916  83 Linux   # X-Plane =o)
/dev/sda8  * 976703868  976768064     32098+ 83 Linux   # /boot
/dev/sda9    780341373  813113909   16386268+  7 HPFS/NTFS # Win7 test

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