Partition does not start on physical sector boundary?
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I've one HD on my laptop, with two partitions (one ext3 with Ubuntu 12.04 installed and one swap).
fdisk
is giving me a Partition 1 does not start on physical sector boundary warning. What is the cause and do I need to fix it? If so, how?
This is sudo fdisk -l
:
Disk /dev/sda: 750.2 GB, 750156374016 bytes
255 testine, 63 settori/tracce, 91201 cilindri, totale 1465149168 settori
Unità = settori di 1 * 512 = 512 byte
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Identificativo disco: 0x5a25087f
Dispositivo Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 63 1448577023 724288480+ 83 Linux
Partition 1 does not start on physical sector boundary.
/dev/sda2 1448577024 1465147391 8285184 82 Linux swap / Solaris
This is sudo lshw
related result:
*-disk
description: ATA Disk
product: WDC WD7500BPKT-0
vendor: Western Digital
physical id: 0
bus info: scsi@0:0.0.0
logical name: /dev/sda
version: 01.0
serial: WD-WX21CC1T0847
size: 698GiB (750GB)
capabilities: partitioned partitioned:dos
configuration: ansiversion=5 signature=5a25087f
*-volume:0
description: EXT3 volume
vendor: Linux
physical id: 1
bus info: scsi@0:0.0.0,1
logical name: /dev/sda1
logical name: /
version: 1.0
serial: cc5c562a-bc59-4a37-b589-805b27b2cbd7
size: 690GiB
capacity: 690GiB
capabilities: primary bootable journaled extended_attributes large_files recover ext3 ext2 initialized
configuration: created=2010-02-27 09:18:28 filesystem=ext3 modified=2012-06-23 18:33:59 mount.fstype=ext3 mount.options=rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro,user_xattr,barrier=1,data=ordered mounted=2012-06-28 00:20:47 state=mounted
*-volume:1
description: Linux swap volume
physical id: 2
bus info: scsi@0:0.0.0,2
logical name: /dev/sda2
version: 1
serial: 16a7fee0-be9e-4e34-9dc3-28f4eeb61bf6
size: 8091MiB
capacity: 8091MiB
capabilities: primary nofs swap initialized
configuration: filesystem=swap pagesize=4096
These are related /etc/fstab
lines:
UUID=cc5c562a-bc59-4a37-b589-805b27b2cbd7 / ext3 errors=remount-ro,user_xattr 0 1
UUID=16a7fee0-be9e-4e34-9dc3-28f4eeb61bf6 none swap sw 0 0
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