On 6/5/2014 1:56 PM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: > mkpart pri 0.0GB x.GB > *always* gives me aligned partions (and parted - talk about user hostile > programs! "Not aligned", with not a clue as to what it actually wants....) I've taken to always running parted with -a none, as its alignment rules are based on old concepts like cylinders, heads, which are meaningless and even WRONG on today's storage devices. (63 heads, 255 sectors is not uncommon, this means everything at a cylinder or head is on an ODD sector boundary, ouch!) -- john r pierce 37N 122W somewhere on the middle of the left coast