Why fdisk creating partition with sector 32768 and not with 2048?
Issue
- Why fdisk creating partition with sector 32768 and not with 2048?
Disk /dev/sda: 2147.5 GB, 2147483648000 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 261083 cylinders, total 4194304000 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 16384 bytes / 16777216 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x162a0cbc
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 32768 4194303999 2097135616 83 Linux
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6.6
- fdisk
- parted
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