David Wright <[email protected]> writes: > On Wed 09 Sep 2020 at 08:53:20 (-0600), Joe Pfeiffer wrote: >> [email protected] writes: >> > On Tuesday, September 08, 2020 04:39:05 PM David Christensen wrote: >> >> Neither the string "2 MiB" nor the string "2 M" appear on page you have >> >> cited. >> > >> > That is correct, that's is what I have not found on that page. >> > >> >> Please provide a URL that advocates "start the first partition at 2 MIB" >> > >> > Maybe I misinterpreted what David Wright said in an email >> > responding to one of >> > my questions back in June. >> > >> > <quote> >> > Subject: Re: Advice on encrypted filesystem >> > Date: Friday, June 26, 2020, 09:25:49 AM >> > From: David Wright <[email protected]> >> > To: [email protected] >> > >> > ---< snip >--- >> > >> > If encrypting an entire disk, scramble the disk first, then partition. >> > If only encrypting a partition, partition the disk first. >> > *Alignments should be at least 2M (4096 x 512B sectors).* >> > Scramble any sensitive pre-existing contents: >> > </quote> >> > >> > I took that to mean that the first partition should start at 2 MiB. >> >> That doesn't follow -- 0 is 2 MiB-aligned (it's also aligned on whatever >> other size boundary you care to name, of course). > > Care to explain how you align the first partition with the start of the disk?
Ah, of course.
