Feature changed by: Ned Ulbricht (ned_ulbricht) Feature #314709, revision 9 Title: Remove cylinder measurement in Yast Partitioner openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Mandatory Requested by: Roman Bysh (romanator) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: The use of "cylinder measurement" during partitioning should be removed by openSUSE. Now that newer drives use " LBA " the use of cylinders is no longer required. This should be replaced with a slider that measures partitions in megabytes, gigabytes and in the near future terabytes. + Discussion: + #1: Ned Ulbricht (ned_ulbricht) (2013-01-02 17:59:15) + Cylinder alignment is still required for dual-boot compatability with + Windows XP. + That use case may or may not be all that important to us anymore. + However, at the very least, a change which breaks things in that + scenario should be well-documented as NOT SUPPORTED anymore. + There are known issues with MBR partitioning using Microsoft Vista (or + later) diskpart, which aligns on 1MB boundaries, when XP compatibility + is still required. I don't have a setup like that myself, so I'm not up + on the exact details. But the issues have bitten others. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/314709