Philip Webb wrote:
Yes, iff you partition the whole disk that way. I don't know whether Dell + M$ located their partitions correctly or whether Fdisk will start at the proper place when adding more.
Microsoft have been doing the right thing since Vista SP1, long before the Linux ecosystem pulled its collective head out of the sand. Regarding the available partitioning tools, fdisk from util-linux-2.18 onwards is safe. Gentoo was extremely slow on the uptake in getting this issue resolved but that's water under the bridge now. Any release media from around the time bug #356941 was closed will be safe.
I usually validate the starting boundary of a partition in this fashion: echo $(( 64538624 % 8 )) # 0 == 1MiB aligned == good Cheers, --Kerin
