dE composed on 2014-10-28 08:54 (UTC+0530): > Felix Miata wrote: >> 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. > But that works even with multiples of 8. So we can start from sector 8 > in MBR and 40 in GPT. OK, as long as you know you'll never need a bootloader or other boot-time software that requires the "wasted" space between MBR and first partition sector. It seems M$ for Vista picked 2048 to reserve plenty of space for such a *possibility* (not necessarily expectation), so for compat reasons and other[1], other tools, including fdisk, decided to do the same at least by default. I've created partitions starting at sector 0x400 on 4k disks with no problems observed. > Also I'm pretty sure fdisk uses 2048 even with -b 4096, but > unfortunately I get -- > *** Error in `fdisk': malloc(): memory corruption: 0x0000000002507330 *** > with that switch. Bug somewhere? [1] http://www.anchor.com.au/blog/2012/10/the-difference-between-booting-mbr-and-gpt-with-grub/ -- "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
