Regardless of the possibility to use the space, I ALWAYS leave the first cylinder of a disk unused (aligning partitions to cylinder boundaries). I find the idea of using the first cylinder for "optimal" space usage a bit ridiculous, to be honest. With thousands of cylinders on a disk, if not more, a single unused cylinder doesn't matter all that much (we're talking about 8032.5 Kilobytes here). And keeping it (and maybe the last one) free means these problems simply don't turn up at all, with over 7MBytes available for the bootloader. Is there any boot loader available that would use need much?
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