Subject: Re: bug#38474: 4M, 12M or 24M partition alignment

From: "Brian C. Lane" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2020 14:50:11 -0800

On Mon, Dec 02, 2019 at 11:10:30PM +0100, Marcel Partap wrote:
> Dear parted devs,
> is there a way to make partition boundaries align to erasure block size presumably used on common USB flash memory chips?
> Could it make much of a difference?

parted only knows about the alignment reported by the device, so if it
reports 512b that's what it will use. There's no way to override this
and have it calculate a different alignment automatically.

But you can use the MiB units to set the sizes yourself so that you can
make them start exactly where you want them.

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Brian C. Lane (PST8PDT) - weldr.io - lorax - parted - pykickstart