Sorry, the Wikipedia article is Advanced Format: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Format
On Tuesday, September 08, 2020 12:53:00 PM rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > Why start the first partition at 2 MIB, why not at any multiple of 4096 > bytes that leaves room for whatever may need to be at the beginning of the > disk (like maybe the MBR, or LILO, or ???)? > > I've seen the advice to align partitions properly by starting them at a > multiple of 4096 bytes, and I have (I think) a reasonable understanding of > why (based on a sketch in the Wikipedia article on advanced partitioning). > > But then I see the advice to start the first partition at 2 MiB -- why not > at some lower multiple of 4096 while leaving room for anything that may > need to be at the very beginning of the disk? (I haven't found an > explanation for that.)