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Subject: Re: fdisk and 2048 sectors obsession.
From: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
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Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2014 08:38:18 -0400
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>>>>> "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.

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Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering