Re: 'equal sized partitions' and fdisk

On Fri, 16 Jan 1998, Alastair Waddell wrote:

> This is a repost, please excuse my efforts...
>
> I am installing a 3rd drive to a squid cache_dir. The previous two drives
> were 2GB each and easily partitioned to equal sizes. I now have a 6B drive
> (sda) to add, and would be able to make 3 partitions out of it, but fdisk
> won't let me create partitions of equal block size to each other and the
> other partitioned drives. I don't expect that 'close enough is good
> enough' so your comments would be appreciated.
>
> It comes down to blocks/KB I guess.
Bigger is better, just don't make it smaller.
Cheers

>
> Regards,
>
> Disk /dev/sda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 787 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
>
> Device Boot Begin Start End Blocks Id System
>
> Disk /dev/sdb: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 256 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
>
> Device Boot Begin Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/sdb1 1 1 256 2056288+ 83 Linux native
>
> Disk /dev/sdc: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 263 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
>
> Device Boot Begin Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/sdc1 1 1 256 2056288+ 83 Linux native
> /dev/sdc2 257 257 263 56227+ 83 Linux native
>
> and here's the newest drive:
>
> Disk /dev/sda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 787 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
>
> Partition number (1-4): 2
> First cylinder (257-787): 257
> Last cylinder or +size or +sizeM or +sizeK ([257]-787): +2056288K <-
>
> Command (m for help): p
>
> Disk /dev/sda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 787 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
>
> Device Boot Begin Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/sda1 1 1 256 2056288+ 83 Linux native
> /dev/sda2 257 257 512 2056320 83 Linux native <-?
>
> ^^^
>
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