Re: debian installer 4k sectors
On 2016-04-08, Sven Hartge <sven@svenhartge.de> wrote:
>
> Partition 2 is the Extended Partition, which is only a container for
> logical partitions. The extended partition does not need to be aligned
> with the 4096 sector size. Partition 5, the first logical partition,
> which contains the real file system needs to be aligned and it is:
> 3903533056/4096=953011.
>
>> Due to this there is also error: "Partition 2 does not start on physical
>> sector boundary."
>
> This is, because fdisk is a bit dumb in that context.
The Gnome Disk Utility is also dumb in this sense and gives a warning
for the extended partition, claiming misalignment and suggesting
repartitioning.
> Everything is fine and correctly aligned.
>
> Grüße,
> Sven.
>
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