Re: moving partitions with 240 heads geometry converts them to 255 heads geometry

[Jim Meyering]

Kim Mik wrote:
> At the Parted Magic forum, we have a report that Gparted messes up the disk 
> when partitions which have 240 heads geometry on disk get moved. Those moved 
> partitions get a 255 heads geometry
>
> See for the post of the bug reporter at:
> http://forums.partedmagic.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=512&p=1770&hilit=240+heads#p1770

Thanks for posting that.
When you have a mix of partitions/file-systems, some of which
were created while one geometry was in effect, and others that
were created when another geometry was in effect, you should
not expect to be able to do much of anything with them.

Best advice is probably "don't do that".

Sorry.