Re: How to get installer to align partitions on 4096 byte boundaries?

[Elimar Riesebieter <riesebie@lxtec.de>]

* Rick Thomas <rbthomas@pobox.com> [2014-05-04 01:14 -0700]:

[...]
> root@bigal:~# mac-fdisk -l /dev/sda
> /dev/sda
>         #                    type name                   length   base       ( size )  system
> /dev/sda1     Apple_partition_map Apple                      63 @ 1          ( 31.5k)  Partition map
> /dev/sda2         Apple_Bootstrap untitled                 1954 @ 64         (977.0k)  NewWorld bootblock
> /dev/sda3         Apple_UNIX_SVR2 untitled               500001 @ 2018       (244.1M)  Linux native
> /dev/sda4               Linux_LVM untitled           1953023100 @ 502019     (931.3G)  Unknown
> /dev/sda5              Apple_Free Extra                      49 @ 1953525119 ( 24.5k)  Free space
> 
> Block size=512, Number of Blocks=1953525168
> DeviceType=0x0, DeviceId=0x0
> 
> When I say "sector" or "logical-sector" in the following I mean
> 512-byte sector.  When I say "physical-sector" I mean 8
> logical-sectors (4096-bytes).  When I say "megabyte" or "MiB" I
> mean 1048576 bytes or 2048 logical-sectors, or 256
> physical-sectors.

What tells:
# hdparm -I /dev/sda | grep -A15 Configuration:

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