Grant writes: > Just to confirm, starting at block 2048 is OK?
Yes, if it's divisible by 8, it's okay. That's because 512 * 8 = 4096, so every 8th 512-byte block starts on a 4096 block boundary. Now I have a related question: My new seagate Barracuda Green 2TB ST2000DL003-9VT166 drive has 4096 bytes per sector, but uses something that is called SmartAlign(TM) [*]. Seagate says that there are no performance impacts even when the partitions are misaligned. This would be good, because I completely forgot about this when creating partitions, and I would like to keep it as it is now. Has anyone heard about this? Can I trust Seagate that what they say is correct? [*] www.seagate.com/docs/pdf/de.../mb6101_smartalign_technology_faq.pdf Wonko