Why getting message "Partition N does not start on physical sector boundary".

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Issue

  • Why getting message "Partition N does not start on physical sector boundary".

# fdisk -l /dev/sda
:
Sector size (logical/physical): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 262144 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1               1      267350  2147483647+  ee  GPT
Partition 1 does not start on physical sector boundary.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.1
  • util-linux-ng package with version earlier than 2.17.2-12.el6

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