Even numbered partitions?

[wizardadept]

I had a co-worker tell me that if you don't partition a drive with an even numbered ammount of megabytes that it will go bad. I thought that it was one of the craziest things I have heard of, but has anyone else heard of this?(by co-worker, I mean my boss, hard to argue with the boss).

 

[SESaskDFC]

Howdy:

I have a 30gb hdd in one of my systems that is partitioned as 5, 10 and 15GB's respectively.. Been like this for over a year.. I don't think he really knows what he is talking about !!

Murray

 

[edfair]

Fdisk is capable of handling them equally and the OS doesn't care.

Ed Fair
Give the wrong symptoms, get the wrong solutions.

 

[IslandCustom]

Ridiculous. Your boss is an ass.

 

[Blujacket]

You can even partition them in percentages without worrying about the MegaBytes/GigaBytes.

 

[SkipCox]

Would that mean that only an even number of light switches will work in his office?

Same thing.

Skip

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[micker377]

I partition with the "percent" mode. This sometimes leaves a partition with, say 58.3 gig. Been doing this since the old DOS days, never had a problem. I'd advise agreeing with your boss, and then do it any way you want!

 

[techkiwi]

I would agree with everyone above, I've been partitioning disks in all sorts of sizes with no problems.

The only thing I've heard rumoured is that if you are using software that will allow you to determine start and end Cylinder/Head/Sector you should ensure that the partition ends on the last sector of the - Head? Cylinder? Not sure. But if you're using FDISK that won't be a problem anyway.

 

[zeitghost]

Is this the old problem from many years ago with early ide drives where the drive would start writing over the start sectors of the disk when it became full?

A sort of address wrap around problem.

I seem to recall that it had something to do with the partition size.

This may be complete rubbish of course, especially since it was about 15 years ago or more.

rgds
Zeit.