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Helmut Jarausch writes: |
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> modern fdisk puts the first partition at block 63 while older version |
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> have put it at block 1. |
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No, it's older versions that use 63, while the new fdisk uses 2048. This |
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way the new 4K sectors of huge drives are aligned well. It does not |
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need to be 2048, as long as it's dividable by 8. But fdisk apparently does |
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not allow smaller values. |
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> Now, I'm going to upgrade an older system. |
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> Is it safe to repartition it by letting the first partition start 63 |
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> and shortening the first partition by 62 blocks? |
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> (I will loose the first partition which doesn't matter in my case.) |
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I thought this would work, but I'm not sure now. But why do you want to |
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change the partition start anyway? |
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Wonko |
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