> It's a de-facto standard, which Windows does too. The first megabyte > is reserved here for a boot loader or any other management data that > could be needed for a disk or box to boot from. So as far as I understood both starting at 1 MiB and having partition boundaries at multiples of 1 MiB is for: - Dealing with all possible situations (Windows, bootloaders, 4K sectors, ...), both at present and in the foreseeable future - Avoiding each person to use different partitioning rules (as I were trying to do) Am I right? -- 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
