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wheezy partition question



Hello List,

I am testing Wheezy on a separate partition of my hard disk.

The partitions I told the installer to use are, 

/dev/sda5 as root / mount point, and
/dev/sda6 as swap

Now to the question, why the partition starts at offset #2 while I would
expect #63? 

PLEASE NOTE 61 sectors shown as free
61 (+2=63 I thought should be the offset)

cfdisk reports:
==============
               First       Last
 # Type       Sector      Sector   Offset    Length   Filesystem Type
(ID) Flag

 1 Primary           0       64259     63       64260 Linux (83)
Boot
   Pri/Log       64260       64320*     0          61*Free Space
None
 2 Primary       64321*   39857264      0    39792944*Extended (05)
None
 5 Logical       64321*    7871849      2#    7807529*Linux (83)
None
 6 Logical     7871850     8867879     63      996030 Linux swap / So
(82) None

I would expect:
==============
               First       Last
 # Type       Sector      Sector   Offset    Length   Filesystem Type
(ID) Flag

1 Primary           0       64259     63       64260 Linux (83)
Boot
 2 Primary       64260    39857264      0    39793005 Extended (05)
None
 5 Logical       64260     7871849     63     7807590 Linux (83)
None
 6 Logical     7871850     8867879     63      996030 Linux swap / So
(82) None

Is this really a problem, could I correct it at all?
Many thanks.

-- 
Tomas Kral <thomas.kral@email.cz>


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