Bug#542424: Normal debian install makes partitions start at 1

[Felix Zielcke]

Am Dienstag, den 25.08.2009, 22:10 +0200 schrieb Julien PUYDT:
> Uh... I was reading the bugs on grub-pc before upgrading when I found 
> this discussion on whether any "normal" partition tool makes partitions 
> start at 63 and not 1.
> 
> I checked the few systems I have here, all running debian, but of 
> different ages ranging from four years ago to a few months : fdisk -l 
> always says the first partition starts at 1.
> 
> Are we sure the "1" really has the right unit? I can't help but notice 
> that there are generally 63 sectors/track, so 1 track is 63 sectors...
> 

fdisk -l without -u is for me:
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
and so it's always 1 for the start of first partition on all disks.

whereas fdisk -l -u uses correctly sectors as unit.

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Felix Zielcke
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