Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary

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  • After fdisk -l
  • Another reason (as I have found today!) is that gparted was used to partition the disk when fdisk is called to check the status. more

Works as designed

  • We see the error “Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.” This is not a big deal. Drives have not used cylinder boundaries since hard drives exceeded 8GB and BIOS uses LBA or large block allocation. But all the partition tools thru Linux & Win installs still followed cylinders so partition tools never changed the error messages. more