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On 10/28/14 18:08, Martin K. Petersen wrote:
>>>>>> "Karel" == Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com> 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.
>

Ok, it's an IDEMA recommendation. That's why.