On Tuesday, September 08, 2020 12:53:00 PM 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've seen the advice to align partitions properly by starting them at a
multiple of 4096 bytes, and I have (I think) a reasonable understanding of
why (based on a sketch in the Wikipedia article on advanced partitioning).
But then I see the advice to start the first partition at 2 MiB -- why not
at some lower multiple of 4096 while leaving room for anything that may
need to be at the very beginning of the disk? (I haven't found an
explanation for that.)