Package: fdisk Version: 2.33.1-0.1 Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer,
sfdisk by default aligns partition sizes to one sector (at least on some disks) when sizes are not exactly specified. Larger alignments can be very useful nowadays, for example, disk encryption can be more efficient when the sector size for encryption is 4096 octets, requiring a partition size that is an exact multiple of 8 sectors. Unfortunately, when sfidsk auto-sizes a partition and the device has an "odd" size and the size is not specified, sfdisk will simply (and correctly) use the full remaining disk, causing e.g. cryptsetup with --sector-size 4096 to fail. It would be nice if it were possible to specify an alignment factor in bytes or sectors that would be used when creating partitions. Thanks! -- System Information: Debian Release: 10.6 APT prefers stable APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'testing-debug'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-debug'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental-debug'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386, x32 Kernel: Linux 5.8.18-050818-generic (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE Locale: LANG=en_DK.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_DK.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_DK.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages fdisk depends on: ii libc6 2.30-4 ii libfdisk1 2.33.1-0.1 ii libmount1 2.36-3+b2 ii libncursesw6 6.1+20181013-2+deb10u2 ii libsmartcols1 2.36-3+b2 ii libtinfo6 6.1+20181013-2+deb10u2 fdisk recommends no packages. fdisk suggests no packages. -- no debconf information
