Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 17 Apr 2009 15:45:24 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: Implementing NVMHCI... |
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Szabolcs Szakacsits wrote: >>> >>> Windows 2008 aligns partitions on a 1MB boundary, IIRC. >> Makes a lot of sense... > > Since Vista at least the first partition is 2048 sector aligned. > > Szaka >
2048 * 512 = 1 MB, yes.
I *think* it's actually 1 MB and not 2048 sectors, but yes, they've finally dumped the idiotic DOS misalignment. Unfortunately the GNU parted people have said that the parted code is too fragile to fix parted in this way. Sigh.
-hpa
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