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Is GPT aligned for 4k blocks?

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Mar 15, 20266818 views
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The Wikipedia article for GUID Partition Table does not make it clear whether it is aligned to an underlying 4k-block filesystem. Seeing as the diagram shows the first block of the data sector as block 34, which is not divisible by 8 (512 bytes per sector * 8 sectors = a 4k block) then I am incline…

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Yes, you're missing two things: The EFI partition table is not required to be 34 blocks long. The Wikipedia article is downright misleading in this respect. Per the actual specification, rather than Wikipedia, the partition table length is determine…

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