On Tue, 2020-09-08 at 12:53 -0400, rhkramer@gmail.com wrote: > Why start the first partition at 2 MIB, why not at any multiple of 4096 bytes > that leaves room for whatever may need to be at the beginning of the disk > (like maybe the MBR, or LILO, or ???)? I believe it's for 'disks' based on solid state storage technology, NAND flash can have a large erase block size. -- Tixy