Ferenc Wagner wrote:
"Giacomo A. Catenazzi" <cate@debian.org> writes:Does grub use the unallocated disk space near the MBR?Yes. As far as I know, even grub2 does so, but pls. correct me.
So next question: why does windoze installation write to these block (but not to MBR)? Ah, ok the "windoze" in question is already the answer ;-)
there was a discussion about poor performance if partitions/ filesystem was not aligned to the "physical" block sectors.I also heard hpa mention this. But this doesn't mean he is a big fan of using this space. Which discussion do you refer to?
I think this: http://lwn.net/Articles/322777/ (note: windoze align partition at 1MB according comments). ciao cate