RFC: changing start sector in setup-storage

Thomas Lange lange at informatik.uni-koeln.de
Mon Jan 3 14:16:25 CET 2011


>>>>> On Fri, 3 Dec 2010 21:31:41 +0100, Michael Tautschnig <mt at debian.org> said:

    > To resolve this problem, Microsoft decided to start the first partition at
    > 1M=2048*512B=256*4k. According to [2] Linux kernel folks consider it the best
    > approach to follow this decision.
I think setup-storage should also follow this decision.
The new option align-at should only be used in rare cases, most users
should be conviced to migrate to the new defaults.

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regards Thomas


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