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From: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com>
Subject: Re: impact of 4k sector size on the IO & FS stack
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 21:37:43 +0300
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Hello.

Bryan Henderson wrote:

>>DOS partitions start partitions on odd-numbered sectors

> I don't get this.  If you mean partitions defined by the classic DOS 
> partition table format, then AFAICS, such a partition can start in any 
> sector.

    Only at "logical cylinder boudary" (except for the first partition).