Answer by Ryan Feeley for Why does the partition start on sector 2048 instead...
The 1 MiB (2048 * 512-byte emulated block size) choice is a great catch-all for various hardware storage configurations. Since file system data structures are generally aligned with the partition start...
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fdisk -c=dos You used the old DOS partition table when creating your partition. Newer versions of fdisk do not use dos compatibility mode by default.
View ArticleAnswer by Adrien Clerc for Why does the partition start on sector 2048...
Maybe it will be useful to add a comment here. For LUKS partition, it is said to delete and re-create the partition at the same place, but larger before calling cryptsetup resize. But when you created...
View ArticleAnswer by Jason Byrne for Why does the partition start on sector 2048 instead...
While I realize that the actual question was answered, a quick fix for the 63 vs 2048 first cylinder issue is something like: sfdisk -d /dev/sdb | sfdisk --force /dev/sda (if you're sure you've got...
View ArticleAnswer by JdeBP for Why does the partition start on sector 2048 instead of 63?
Because your old disc was partitioned with a old utility, such as the Linux fdisk, that uselessly implemented track-alignment using the entirely fake disc geometry that you see reported, and your new...
View ArticleAnswer by surfasb for Why does the partition start on sector 2048 instead of 63?
Not sure why it started on 63 in the first place, but according to fdisk, your sector sizes are 512. So if you want your partitions, and thus clusters to be aligned, your starting offset should be...
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I had two drives partitioned the same and running two RAID partitions on each. One died and I replaced it under warranty for the same model. While trying to partition it, the first partition can only...
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