On Tuesday 09 February 2010 16:31:15 Mark Knecht wrote: > On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 4:37 PM, Mark Knecht <markkne...@gmail.com> wrote: > <SNIP> > > > There's a few small downsides I've run into with all of this so far: > > > > 1) Since we don't use sector 63 it seems that fdisk will still tell > > you that you can use 63 until you use up all your primary partitions. > > It used to be easier to put additional partitions on when it gave you > > the next sector you could use after the one you just added.. Now I'm > > finding that I need to write things down and figure it out more > > carefully outside of fdisk. > > Replying mostly to myself, WRT the value 63 continuing to show up > after making the first partition start at 64, in my case since for > desktop machines the first partition is general /boot, and as it's > written and read so seldom, in the future when faced with this problem > I will likely start /boot at 63 and just ensure that all the other > partitions - /, /var, /home, etc., start on boundaries divisible by 8. > > It will make using fdisk slightly more pleasant.
I noticed while working on two new laptops with gparted that resizing Windows 7 and creating new partitions showed up small blank partitions (marked as hidden) in between the resized, and/or the new partitions. If I recall correctly these were only a few KB each so rather small as such. I am not sure why gparted created these - could it be related to the drive automatically aligning partitions to this 4K sector size that is discussed here? -- Regards, Mick
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