dE composed on 2014-10-28 00:13 (UTC+0530): > I was learning about GPT when I noticed this behavior of fdisk which I > never though about before. > Regardless of the partition table, fdisk always starts the first > partition at 2048. In reality, the maximum size required by the gap > between MBR and the 1st partition is a single sector, which's used by > GRUB 1.5. GPT doesn't need this space at all. > Then extended partitions too have a gap of 2048 sectors. > Why this behavior? http://www.seagate.com/tech-insights/advanced-format-4k-sector-hard-drives-master-ti/ may provide some insight WRT performance issues ensuing from other start sector selections. -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- 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
