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On 3/19/2010 2:36 PM, Eugene Vilensky wrote:
> Align the partition?

Then I waste 512k on the MBR, and another 512k on the pv header.  I'd
like to avoid that if possible and it seems like --dataalignoffset
should let me do that, but it doesn't accept negative numbers.