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Partition Hard disk with start sector 1

I have a new Hard Disk which I want to use for NAS drive. The requirement is that the partition as seen in fdisk should be as below. Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /...
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Partitioning an SSD with sfdisk

I have been trying to partition this SSD (Samsung 840) nicely for a while now. I want to make sure the pages line up with the SSD pages to limit the amount of writes. I found this site which ...
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What does the output of fdisk mean?

I've got a flash drive and I want to understand the properties of it as is outputted from fdisk. I inserted it and check the dmesg and I could see that it was mounted as /dev/sdb1 so I ran fdisk to ...
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Mismatch between CxHxS and "total number of sectors"

Model: ATA ST320LT007-9ZV14 (scsi) Disk /dev/sda: 38913,80,62 Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/4096B BIOS cylinder,head,sector geometry: 38913,255,63. Each cylinder is 8225kB. Partition Table: ...
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