Hello. I'm trying to use fdisk (from util-linux 2.19.1) for creating a partition on a drive. I noticed that the start sector of the first partition must be at least 2048, that is 1 MiB from the beginning of the drive. This can be changed by entering the "expert mode" and using the "move beginning of data in a partition" option. But I'm still wondering why fdisk reserves so much space by default. As far as I know the only sector that should not be used for partitions is the first one, that is, sector 0. It is reserved for the MBR. So the first partition can start at sector 1. I read that the 1 MiB thing is Windows related: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logical_Disk_Manager. Or it's something that Linux users should also care about? I can't find a convincing explanation anywhere. This 1 MiB thing seems to affect parted, too, as it wants partition boundaries to be multiples of 1 MiB. I don't know if it's related to the problem I have with fdisk, though. Any help is much appreciated. -- 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
