The default for fdisk, parted, and gdisk is starting the first partition on LBA 2048, which is 8 sector aligned. You don't need any options. The alternative is to simply not partition the drives or the resulting RAID and just format it. Chris Murphy
Sat Feb 28 00:42:39 UTC 2015
Chris Murphy <lists at colorremedies.com>
The default for fdisk, parted, and gdisk is starting the first partition on LBA 2048, which is 8 sector aligned. You don't need any options. The alternative is to simply not partition the drives or the resulting RAID and just format it. Chris Murphy