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Re: Won't boot if /, home, swap are encrypted



On Mon 22 Oct 2018 at 14:42:09 (+0200), Pascal Hambourg wrote:
> Le 22/10/2018 à 05:50, David Wright a écrit :
> > 
> > Noted above. This is to give you partition alignment of 1MiB for
> > efficiency. For GPT disks like this, I also add a 3MiB partition
> > (giving me 4MiB alignment) set to "BIOS boot" which, like it says,
> > allows it to be booted in legacy mode if ever required.
> 
> Why do you need 4 MiB alignment ?

As you probably know, I don't. Is there any harm in always rounding
up? I'm just generous to Grub and its ilk. When you read posts about
partitioning, you realise there are some really stingy people out
there. They would probably be calculating a size that squeezes it into
the space before 1MiB.

Cheers,
David.


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