Hello List mates, I recently purchased a Western Digital "Black" 500 GB drive with 7200 rpm. When I create partitions during the install using the "optimal" option, the following appears when I select fdisk. fdisk -l Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders, total 976773168 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes Disk identifier: 0x00033420 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 2048 146802687 73400320 83 Linux /dev/sda2 146802688 155187199 4192256 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sda3 155187200 976773119 410792960 f W95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/sda5 155189248 870322175 357566464 83 Linux /dev/sda6 870324224 976752639 53214208 83 Linux linux-nxcl:~ # fdisk -lu=cylinders Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes Disk identifier: 0x00033420 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 1 9139 73400320 83 Linux /dev/sda2 9139 9660 4192256 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sda3 9660 60802 410792960 f W95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/sda5 9661 54176 357566464 83 Linux /dev/sda6 54176 60801 53214208 83 Linux Why is 1st partition's last cylinder sharing the same number with the 2nd partition's first cylinder when the gui showed the 2nd partition starting on the next cylinder? When I select the "Cylinder" option under settings I get the following. However, fdisk shows that that the physical partitions are overlapping. Example Device Boot Start End /dev/sda1 * 1 9139 /dev/sda2 9140 9661 /dev/sda3 9662 60802 /dev/sda5 9663 54176 /dev/sda6 54177 60801 Cheers! Roman --------------------------------------------------------------- openSUSE -- Get it! Discover it! Share it! --------------------------------------------------------------- http://linuxcounter.net/ #179293 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org