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fix minor typos in Large-Disk-HOWTO.sgml

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Jason Leschnik 2016-10-24 22:45:38 +11:00
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@ -585,7 +585,7 @@ for the same disk. One often sees a translated geometry like */255/63
used by one and an untranslated geometry like */16/63 used by another OS.
(People tell me Windows NT uses */64/32 while Windows 2K uses */255/63.)
Thus, it may be impossible to align partitions to cylinder boundaries
according to each of the the various ideas about the size of a cylinder
according to each of the various ideas about the size of a cylinder
that one's systems have. Also different Linux kernels may assign
different geometries to the same disk.
Also, enabling or disabling the BIOS of a SCSI card may change the
@ -612,7 +612,7 @@ What is the definition of alignment?
MSDOS 6.22 FDISK will do the following:
1. If the first sector of the cylinder is a partition
table sector, then the rest of the track is unused,
and the partition starts with the the next track.
and the partition starts with the next track.
This applies to sector 0 (the MBR) and the partition table sectors
preceding logical partitions.
2. Otherwise, the partition starts at the first sector of the