Re: Implementing NVMHCI...

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Fri Apr 17 2009 - 18:52:42 EST


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
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/