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[stablehost]

I have a new server from Hetzner which is complaining about sector sizes;

[root@CentOS-57-64-minimal ~]# fdisk /dev/sda

Command (m for help): p

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1               1         262     2096128   82  Linux swap / Solaris
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sda2             262         327      524288   83  Linux
Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sda3             327       36405   289800067+  83  Linux

As you can see from the end of sda1 and the start of sda2, they are the same block number, which I assume is not a good thing.

Hetzner says "this is fine" and I should be using units, and not sectors;

Command (m for help): u
Changing display/entry units to sectors

Command (m for help): p       

Disk /dev/sda: 299.4 GB, 299439751168 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 36404 cylinders, total 584843264 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1            2048     4194303     2096128   82  Linux swap / Solaris
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sda2         4194304     5242879      524288   83  Linux
Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sda3         5242880   584843014   289800067+  83  Linux

As you can see, the units are on different blocks but it's still complaining in fdisk.

Has anyone ran into this before? Are we going to run into issues in the long term because of this?

[FastServ]

Cylinder boundaries are practically meaningless these days. What you see fdisk complaining about is a rounding error. It's fairly normal in my experience.