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4M, 12M or 24M partition alignment

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From: help-debbugs <at> gnu.org (GNU bug Tracking System)
To: Marcel Partap <mpartap <at> gmx.net>
Subject: bug#38474: closed (Re: bug#38474: 4M, 12M or 24M partition alignment)
Date: Mon, 06 Jan 2020 22:51:02 +0000

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Your bug report

#38474: 4M, 12M or 24M partition alignment

which was filed against the parted package, has been closed.

The explanation is attached below, along with your original report.
If you require more details, please reply to 38474 <at> debbugs.gnu.org.

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From: "Brian C. Lane" <bcl <at> redhat.com>
To: Marcel Partap <mpartap <at> gmx.net>
Cc: 38474-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#38474: 4M, 12M or 24M partition alignment
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

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From: Marcel Partap <mpartap <at> gmx.net>
To: bug-parted <at> gnu.org
Subject: 4M, 12M or 24M partition alignment
Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2019 23:10:30 +0100

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?

Best Regards,
#marcel

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