>>>>> "Kristleifur" == Kristleifur Daðason <kristleifur@xxxxxxxxx> writes: Kristleifur> Starting on sector 64 feels conceptually "prettier" than Kristleifur> Sector 63, but I can't picture the case where it behaves Kristleifur> any different. Except perhaps when GRUB expects stuff to Kristleifur> begin at sector 63, making a mess if we're starting at Kristleifur> sector 64. Though it *should* work OK, of course. The alignment only matters if your underlying storage is using a block size bigger than 512 bytes internally. Common examples of that would be one of the new SATA drives with 4KB physical blocks or a hardware RAID device. -- Martin K. Petersen Oracle Linux Engineering -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html