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Re: Sysinst creates gaps between GPT partitions - why?



On Mon, Aug 03, 2020 at 06:22:12AM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote:
> But 2048 is 11 bits of sector address alignment, and wastes an entire
> MB.  Yes, that doesn't really matter on a 4T disk, but on a 256 MB flash
> drive it seems like a lot.  (I'm perhaps overly sensitive, having used
> Unix on a machine with 2 disks of 2.5M each.)

The alignement depends on the total disk size, it is 1 MB only for huge
disks (where it does not matter). On the 256 MB flash drive it will be
1 sector.

Martin


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