December 4, 201015 yr I had a HDD with a GPT partition table on it. I removed the partition table with this: dd if=/dev/zero of/dev/sdx bs=512 count=20 Next i try to partition the drive with fdisk. I'll get this message when starting fdisk root@Tower:~# fdisk /dev/sdf The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 121601. There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024, and could in certain setups cause problems with: 1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., old versions of LILO) 2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs (e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK) Command (m for help): what will i do with it?
December 4, 201015 yr Author That's normal for modern drives. I have a other drive with the same specs and from the same company that give not this warning. Disk /dev/sdb: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes 1 heads, 63 sectors/track, 31008336 cylinders Units = cylinders of 63 * 512 = 32256 bytes Disk identifier: 0x00000000 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdb1 2 31008336 976762552+ 83 Linux Disk /dev/sdd: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121601 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0x64671665 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdd1 1 121601 976760001 83 Linux Also it starts at cylinder 2.
December 5, 201015 yr Author Question, when i have add a pre-cleared drive to the area and checking with fdisk i'll see this message: Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary. is this normal? Is it wise to check this with fdisk or is it better to forget fdisk?
December 5, 201015 yr Question, when i have add a pre-cleared drive to the area and checking with fdisk i'll see this message: Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary. is this normal? Is it wise to check this with fdisk or is it better to forget fdisk? Hard disks have not used a constant number of sectors per cylinder for probably 20 years. Ignore the warning. It is based on the "reported" geometry which is also only there to make old MS-DOS happy. There is absolutely no way your disk has either 1 or 255 disk heads. fdisk works, just ignore the C/H/S reported. (and the warning) unless you are using it on a VERY old hard-disk.
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