On 2016-04-08, Sven Hartge <s...@svenhartge.de> wrote: > > Partition 2 is the Extended Partition, which is only a container for > logical partitions. The extended partition does not need to be aligned > with the 4096 sector size. Partition 5, the first logical partition, > which contains the real file system needs to be aligned and it is: > 3903533056/4096=953011. > >> Due to this there is also error: "Partition 2 does not start on physical >> sector boundary." > > This is, because fdisk is a bit dumb in that context.
The Gnome Disk Utility is also dumb in this sense and gives a warning for the extended partition, claiming misalignment and suggesting repartitioning. > Everything is fine and correctly aligned. > > Grüße, > Sven. > -- Hypertext--or should I say the ideology of hypertext?--is ultrademocratic and so entirely in harmony with the demagogic appeals to cultural democracy that accompany (and distract one’s attention from) the ever-tightening grip of plutocratic capitalism. - Susan Sontag
