Hi,
after investigating the output of fdisk or sfdisk I encountered an odd number of heads of the virtual disk:
Disk /dev/sda: 1305 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors/track
255 heads is quite a lot I think. I also encountered an odd cylinder partitioning:
Device Boot Start End #cyls #blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 0+ 42- 43- 340992 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 42+ 1305- 1263- 10141697 5 Extended
/dev/sda3 0 - 0 0 0 Empty
/dev/sda4 0 - 0 0 0 Empty
/dev/sda5 42+ 499- 458- 3672064 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 499+ 722- 223- 1783808 83 Linux
/dev/sda7 722+ 795- 74- 589824 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda8 795+ 835- 40- 316416 83 Linux
/dev/sda9 835+ 1305- 471- 3775488 83 Linux
The + or - character indicates that the number is rounded which can't be true on a physical disk because each partition seems to be placed not on a correct cylinder boundary. In Fusion I setup a virtual disk with a size of 5 GB, could that be the reason of that curios disk geometric?
Now I'm confused...
Thx & Bye Tom