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On 1/4/21 12:39 am, Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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> Hello list, |
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> I use gparted often, usually from SystemRescueCD, and a common task is to |
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> move partitions to allow for one to be enlarged. I should be able to specify |
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> all the operations in a list, but whenever I do that gparted inserts 1MB gaps |
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> between partitions, so I have to do one at a time. Even the latest bootable |
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> gparted CD image does the same. |
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> Can anyone tell me what causes this? Has it anything to do with my always |
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> specifying partition size as a power of 8? (I'm of the old school, having been |
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> sent on my first computer hardware course in 1972.) |
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Forcing alignment on megabyte boundaries? - I cant find a reason, but I |
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think I read in the past it was for efficiency with modern file systems. |
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BillK |
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