Ferenc Wagner wrote:
"Giacomo A. Catenazzi" <c...@debian.org> writes:
Does grub use the unallocated disk space near the MBR?
Yes. As far as I know, even grub2 does so, but pls. correct me.
So next question: why does windoze installation write to these block
(but not to MBR)? Ah, ok the "windoze" in question is already the
answer ;-)
there was a discussion about poor performance if partitions/
filesystem was not aligned to the "physical" block sectors.
I also heard hpa mention this. But this doesn't mean he is a big fan
of using this space. Which discussion do you refer to?
I think this:
http://lwn.net/Articles/322777/
(note: windoze align partition at 1MB according comments).
ciao
cate
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