On 1/4/21 12:39 am, Peter Humphrey wrote: > Hello list, > > I use gparted often, usually from SystemRescueCD, and a common task is to > move partitions to allow for one to be enlarged. I should be able to specify > all the operations in a list, but whenever I do that gparted inserts 1MB gaps > between partitions, so I have to do one at a time. Even the latest bootable > gparted CD image does the same. > > Can anyone tell me what causes this? Has it anything to do with my always > specifying partition size as a power of 8? (I'm of the old school, having > been > sent on my first computer hardware course in 1972.) > Forcing alignment on megabyte boundaries? - I cant find a reason, but I think I read in the past it was for efficiency with modern file systems.
BillK
