On Sun, 2013-09-22 at 15:38 +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote: [...] > I had installed a new hard disk after my previous one died, so I had > to reinstall Debian. I used the expert mode and partitioned the disk > myself. But after I had installed the whole system, I happened to run > fdisk to try to relabel the partitions, but discovered to my shock > that it reported: "Partition 4 does not start on physical sector > boundary." (Partition 4 was my extended partition.) [...] I think this is fine, so long as the logical partitions are aligned to a physical block boundary. Testing various partition configurations with Debian 7.1, I found that all partitions are aligned to 1 MB boundaries except that an extended partition starts 1 KB before the first logical partition (which is properly aligned). I think fdisk should not warn about alignment of extended partitions, since they contain nothing but a partition table. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Beware of programmers who carry screwdrivers. - Leonard Brandwein
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