When creating a new partition on a disk after an existing partition that ends unaligned there will be a few unused blocks in between them, now when creating yet another partition fdisk will sugest placing the new one in the small room between the existing partitions instead of after the last one. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html