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[Bug 1440769] Re: Wrong MBR partition alignment on 4K physical sector hard disks

 

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** Changed in: gnome-disk-utility (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => Low

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Title:
  Wrong MBR partition alignment on 4K physical sector hard disks

Status in gnome-disk-utility package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Steps to reproduce:
  1) Select 4K sector hard disk
  2) Select Format (Ctrl+F), Erase:  Quick, Parititioning: MBR/DOS
  3) Select Create New Partition, Erase: Quick, Type: Ext4
  4) Run fdisk -l /dev/sdb: Partition 1 starts at 512 byte block #63, complains about partition not starting on physical sector boundary.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
  Package: gnome-disk-utility 3.10.0-1ubuntu3
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.16.0-33.44~14.04.1-generic 3.16.7-ckt7
  Uname: Linux 3.16.0-33-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.8
  Architecture: amd64
  CurrentDesktop: Unity
  Date: Mon Apr  6 16:19:15 2015
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2010-02-20 (1870 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Alpha amd64 (20100219)
  SourcePackage: gnome-disk-utility
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2014-03-29 (372 days ago)

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