bug#38474: closed (4M, 12M or 24M partition alignment)

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> Mon, 2 Dec 2019 23:10:30 +0100
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> Dear parted devs,
> is there a way to make partition boundaries align to erasure block size 
> presumably used on common USB flash memory chips?
> Could it make much of a difference?
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> Best Regards,
> #marcel
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> On Mon, Dec 02, 2019 at 11:10:30PM +0100, Marcel Partap wrote:
> > Dear parted devs,
> > is there a way to make partition boundaries align to erasure block size 
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> > Could it make much of a difference?
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> parted only knows about the alignment reported by the device, so if it
> reports 512b that's what it will use. There's no way to override this
> and have it calculate a different alignment automatically.
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> But you can use the MiB units to set the sizes yourself so that you can
> make them start exactly where you want them.
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> Brian C. Lane (PST8PDT) - weldr.io - lorax - parted - pykickstart
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