Im getting a warning message in the log output about something that a partition cannot be created with the size I requested and that it will instead be smaller. What happened?
On MS-DOS partition tables, partitions have to begin and end on cylinder boundaries. This is mainly for historical reasons. KDE Partition Manager will deal with this internally and try not to bother the user with that limitation. Under rare circumstances, KDE Partition Manager will however not be able to set up an operation in the way the user requested it due to this limitation. For example, if one cylinder on a device is 8 MiB large and you try to resize a partition by 6 MiB, this will not work. You might also encounter this message if you have a device and partition table where the partitions are, for whatever reason, not correctly snapped to cylinder boundaries and you try to move or copy these partitions for the first time. The message itself is harmless and only exists to inform the user that something can not be done quite exactly the way the user expects. Your partitions and data will not be negatively affected in any way if you see this message.
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