rhkra...@gmail.com writes: > On Tuesday, September 08, 2020 04:39:05 PM David Christensen wrote: >> Neither the string "2 MiB" nor the string "2 M" appear on page you have >> cited. > > That is correct, that's is what I have not found on that page. > >> Please provide a URL that advocates "start the first partition at 2 MIB" > > Maybe I misinterpreted what David Wright said in an email responding to one > of > my questions back in June. > > <quote> > Subject: Re: Advice on encrypted filesystem > Date: Friday, June 26, 2020, 09:25:49 AM > From: David Wright <deb...@lionunicorn.co.uk> > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > ---< snip >--- > > If encrypting an entire disk, scramble the disk first, then partition. > If only encrypting a partition, partition the disk first. > *Alignments should be at least 2M (4096 x 512B sectors).* > Scramble any sensitive pre-existing contents: > </quote> > > I took that to mean that the first partition should start at 2 MiB.
That doesn't follow -- 0 is 2 MiB-aligned (it's also aligned on whatever other size boundary you care to name, of course).
