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Re: Why start the first partition at 2 MIB, why not at any multiple of 4096 bytes ...

From David <bouncingcats@gmail.com>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: Why start the first partition at 2 MIB, why not at any multiple of 4096 bytes ...
Date 2020-09-10 08:10 +0200
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On Thu, 10 Sep 2020 at 11:26, David Christensen
<dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> wrote:
> On 2020-09-09 08:03, David Wright wrote:

> > ... having been bitten by
> > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=923561

> I have a 300 GB drive that has been causing me some confusion.  Did I
> elicity the bug when I partitioned the disk as follows?

I have not read all relevant messages, but in case it helps you can
check your exact device partition boundaries by running:

parted /dev/disk/by-id/ata-ST3300622AS_******** 'unit compact print
free unit s print free unit b print free'

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Why start the first partition at 2 MIB, why not at any multiple of 4096 bytes ... rhkramer@gmail.com - 2020-09-08 19:00 +0200
  Re: Why start the first partition at 2 MIB, why not at any multiple  of 4096 bytes ... Tixy <tixy@yxit.co.uk> - 2020-09-08 19:00 +0200
  Re: Why start the first partition at 2 MIB, why not at any multiple of 4096 bytes ... rhkramer@gmail.com - 2020-09-08 19:00 +0200
    Re: Why start the first partition at 2 MIB, why not at any multiple  of 4096 bytes ... David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2020-09-08 22:40 +0200
      Re: Why start the first partition at 2 MIB, why not at any multiple of 4096 bytes ... rhkramer@gmail.com - 2020-09-08 23:50 +0200
        Re: Why start the first partition at 2 MIB, why not at any multiple  of 4096 bytes ... David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2020-09-09 00:50 +0200
        Re: Why start the first partition at 2 MIB, why not at any multiple  of 4096 bytes ... David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2020-09-09 17:10 +0200
          Re: Why start the first partition at 2 MIB, why not at any multiple  of 4096 bytes ... David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2020-09-10 03:30 +0200
            Re: Why start the first partition at 2 MIB, why not at any multiple  of 4096 bytes ... David <bouncingcats@gmail.com> - 2020-09-10 08:10 +0200
              Re: Why start the first partition at 2 MIB, why not at any multiple  of 4096 bytes ... David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2020-09-10 18:50 +0200
                Re: Why start the first partition at 2 MIB, why not at any multiple  of 4096 bytes ... David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2020-09-11 00:40 +0200
                Re: Why start the first partition at 2 MIB, why not at any multiple  of 4096 bytes ... David <bouncingcats@gmail.com> - 2020-09-11 05:10 +0200
                Re: Why start the first partition at 2 MIB, why not at any multiple  of 4096 bytes ... David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2020-09-11 06:20 +0200
                Re: Why start the first partition at 2 MIB, why not at any multiple  of 4096 bytes ... David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2020-09-11 16:30 +0200
              Re: Why start the first partition at 2 MIB, why not at any multiple  of 4096 bytes ... David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2020-09-11 01:20 +0200
                Re: Why start the first partition at 2 MIB, why not at any multiple  of 4096 bytes ... David <bouncingcats@gmail.com> - 2020-09-11 05:50 +0200
                Re: Why start the first partition at 2 MIB, why not at any multiple  of 4096 bytes ... David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2020-09-11 16:30 +0200
                Re: Why start the first partition at 2 MIB, why not at any multiple  of 4096 bytes ... David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2020-09-11 22:10 +0200
        Re: Why start the first partition at 2 MIB, why not at any multiple of 4096 bytes ... Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2020-09-09 17:20 +0200
          Re: Why start the first partition at 2 MIB, why not at any multiple  of 4096 bytes ... David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2020-09-09 18:30 +0200
            Re: Why start the first partition at 2 MIB, why not at any multiple  of 4096 bytes ... Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2020-09-09 19:10 +0200
  Re: Why start the first partition at 2 MIB, why not at any multiple  of 4096 bytes ... Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2020-09-08 23:10 +0200

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