File system blocks alignment

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <20100102050843.GI3508 at acme.spoerlein.net>, Ulrich =?utf-8?B?U3DDtnJ
sZWlu?= writes:

>Sysinstall, fdisk, gpart
>and bsdlabel should all display some fat warning if partition/label
>alignment is not, say at 256kB (a common stripe size, right?) 

You overlook that MBR/Fdisk requires bootable slices to start at a
"track".  That means that the propper slice-alignmen typically
will be 8*63=504 sectors.

Unless you want to explore how many BIOS'es still are stupid about
this...

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