Feature changed by: Roman Bysh (Romanator) Feature #314709, revision 13 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. - New drives use " LBA " making the use of cylinders no longer a feature - that should be deprecated. + New drives use LBA making the use of cylinders a feature that should be + deprecated. I am asking that a slider be implemented to create and resize 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. #2: Ned Ulbricht (ned_ulbricht) (2013-01-02 18:21:17) (reply to #1) Here's one of the known issues: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/931760 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/931760) "You cannot install Windows XP successfully after you use Windows Vista or Windows PE 2.0 to create partitions on a hard disk" -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/314709