[clue] Whack-a-disk

[Bruce Ediger]

On Tue, 29 Jul 2014, David L. Willson wrote:

> # Create a new, cylinder-aligned, primary partition, the full size of the disk
> sudo parted --align cylinder /dev/sdc mkpart primary 0% 100%

Is cylinder-aligned important for performance any more? I was under
the impression that LBA meant that heads/cylinders/platters might
even be faked information, given out by the disk software to fool
any old stuff that might ask for it.