Disk Utility starts the first partition on an MBR formatted disk at sector 63. This is a problem because:
1) There is not enough room for Grub if the OS is installed on RAID and LVM 2) Causes partition misalignment with physical sectors for modern disks 3) Causes partition misalignment with erase blocks on SSDs 4) Windows now defaults to sector 2048 so Disk Utility is behind the times 5) I cannot find any way to change this in Disk utility 6) Disk utility is the default GUI partition editor in Ubuntu I would expect Disk Utility to start the first partition at logical sector 1024 or 2048. I beg to differ that this has low importance. It can lead a user to not being able to reboot their system after an upgrade to 12.04 because the Grub core.img is so huge it no longer fits within 62 sectors if the system has RAID and LVM. THIS WAS REPORTED 1 YEAR AGO and STILL PERSISTS IN UBUNTU 12.04???? Good grief. Presumably this is an easy peasy fix so just do it, please, and release an update. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/802153 Title: old /wrong starting sektor on new harddrives with 4k To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-disk-utility/+bug/802153/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
