<div dir="ltr">Actually, could start the partition on sector 64 if you really want[1]. The important thing is that it be a multiple of 4. You might also consider switching to gdisk[2] instead of fdisk (provided your motherboard is capable).<div><br></div><div>[1] -- <a href="http://jrfom.com/2010/05/03/4kb-sectors/">http://jrfom.com/2010/05/03/4kb-sectors/</a></div><div>[2] -- <a href="http://www.rodsbooks.com/gdisk/">http://www.rodsbooks.com/gdisk/</a></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 11:56 AM, Ted W <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ted-lists@xy0.org" target="_blank">ted-lists@xy0.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">When resizing a partition using fdisk, it's important to take note of the starting position of the original partition before creating the new partition. Apparently fdisk, by default, uses track-alignment starting at position 63 where as newer partitioning tools (e.g. parted) aligns to the 1MiB boundry, starting at 2048. If you wish to still use fdisk to resize a partition starting at 2048 you can use `fdisk -u -c /dev/sdX` to ignore MsDOS compatibility and default to 2048 as the starting position.<br>
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I just spent 5 hours last night fearing I had somehow munged my /srv partition while resizing the disk because the new partition table had the wrong starting point thanks to fdisk. Once I shifted the start point to 2048, all was fine. One more lesson well learned.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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