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Re: Free space in partman



On Sun, 2016-08-28 at 11:22 +0000, Łukasz Stelmach wrote:
> Dnia 28 sierpnia 2016 12:43:56 CEST, Philip Hands <phil@hands.com>
> napisał(a):
> > 
> > Łukasz Stelmach <steelman@post.pl> writes:
> > 
> > > 
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > I am trying to figure out where is the code that makes partman (fed
> > > with a custom recipe) leave 1MB of free space at the beginning of the
> > > disk? Is it possible to control the size of that space?
> > 
> > That's the result of default partition alignment.
> > 
> > Here's the text from the gdisk man page about the 'l' command that lets
> > you change that
> 
> Does *partman* (or partman-auto) feed results of its calculations to
> [fg]disk before displayimg them to a user?
[...]

It uses libparted, and I think that's doing the alignment.

Ben.

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