On 01/28/2010 02:44 PM, Karel Zak wrote: > On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 10:10:05PM +0100, Christoph Zimmermann wrote: >> to be prepared for the switch to hdd with sector sizes larger than 512 >> byte there must be a new default to align partitions to. > > The plan is to use 2048 sectors (1MiB) as a default for disks with > unknown topology. I'll do this change in fdisk next week and the same > is planned for parted. I think this should be a minimum regardless of any detected disk topology, except perhaps in the case of extremely small media. -hpa -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux-ng" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html