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   wolfgang kern to Joe Monk   
   Re: sector size   
   29 Apr 22 04:00:03   
   
   From: nowhere@nevernet.at   
      
   On 28/04/2022 04:26, Joe Monk wrote:   
   >> Thanks. So really all I need to do is make sure that   
   >> when I write or obtain an fdisk utility, I need to make   
   >> sure that all partitions are aligned on an 8-sector   
   >> boundary.   
      
   > No, you need to make sure that your partitions are aligned on 1MB boundaries   
   (2048 sectors).   
      
   any reason for this 1MB ?   
      
   while my not supporting NTFS OS mainly have 64GB partitions, all my   
   partitions are 2GB aligned because 2GB became finally my minimum size.   
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