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Philip Webb wrote: |
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> Yes, iff you partition the whole disk that way. |
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> I don't know whether Dell + M$ located their partitions correctly |
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> or whether Fdisk will start at the proper place when adding more. |
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Microsoft have been doing the right thing since Vista SP1, long before |
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the Linux ecosystem pulled its collective head out of the sand. |
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Regarding the available partitioning tools, fdisk from util-linux-2.18 |
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onwards is safe. Gentoo was extremely slow on the uptake in getting this |
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issue resolved but that's water under the bridge now. Any release media |
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from around the time bug #356941 was closed will be safe. |
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I usually validate the starting boundary of a partition in this fashion: |
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echo $(( 64538624 % 8 )) # 0 == 1MiB aligned == good |
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Cheers, |
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--Kerin |
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