>>>>> "Karel" == Karel Zak <kzak@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: Karel> This is standard behavior for all modern partitioning tools. Karel> the goal is to start the first partition on offset which is the Karel> most portable and the most useful on all possible disk Karel> configurations. Not only that. It was an explicit request from IDEMA. The disk drive and RAID vendors asked all operating system vendors to ensure 1MB alignment by default. -- Martin K. Petersen Oracle Linux Engineering -- 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