[semi-OT] alignment of partitions at a cylinder boundary

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Recently I had some discussions with people about the need
to align partitions at a cylinder boundary.
Since the details are not documented anywhere that I know of,
I added what I think I know at
  http://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/linux/Large-Disk-6.html#ss6.2
Additions and corrections are welcome.

Andries
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