On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 01:05:17PM -0500, Phillip Susi wrote:
> I thought the way it used to work was that in the default msdos
> compatibility mode, fdisk set the minimum start sector to 63, and that
> if you turned off dos mode, you could then start a partition on sector
> 1. Since then the sector 2048 change has happened, so now it seems your
> choice for minimum sector is 63, or 2048, with no way to get under 63.
> Parted defaults to sector 2048, but lets you enter a start sector of 1 (
> and warns you ). Is there no way to force fdisk to do this, or is this
> a sort of bug or feature loss that was introduced by the move to sector
> 2048?
go to expect menu ('x') and use "move beginning of data in a partition"
('b') command
Karel
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