From: Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net>
To: dE <de.techno@gmail.com>, util-linux@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: fdisk and 2048 sectors obsession.
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2014 15:07:25 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <544E97ED.7040406@earthlink.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <544E923E.6050406@gmail.com>
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.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-10-27 19:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-10-27 18:43 fdisk and 2048 sectors obsession dE
2014-10-27 19:07 ` Felix Miata [this message]
2014-10-28 3:24 ` dE
2014-10-28 3:55 ` Felix Miata
2014-10-28 4:30 ` dE
2014-10-28 5:53 ` Felix Miata
2014-10-28 7:32 ` Karel Zak
2014-10-28 7:49 ` Felix Miata
2014-10-28 8:48 ` Martin Steigerwald
2014-10-28 8:47 ` Martin Steigerwald
[not found] ` <544F3B20.7090109@gmail.com>
2014-10-28 14:33 ` dE
2014-10-28 17:11 ` Linda Walsh
2014-10-29 14:28 ` Dale R. Worley
2014-10-28 7:53 ` Karel Zak
2014-10-28 12:38 ` Martin K. Petersen
2014-10-28 14:53 ` dE
2014-10-28 15:35 ` Theodore Ts'o
2014-10-29 16:40 ` dE
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