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Subject: Re: faulty disk partitioning in 386/ix
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Date: 27 Oct 89 22:54:32 GMT
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Yes the ISC fdisk will not create multiple partitions correctly if you use the "percentage" option instead of specifying the actual starting/ending cylinders.  This is especially troublesome if you have a DOS partition on the drive, followed by the UNIX.  If you fill up the dos partition (or nearly so) it will overwrite the start of the UNIX root partition.  I believe they blame the failure on improper rounding in converting percentage values to cylinder numbers.


James R. Howard
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