I need to align my partitions to 64K (128 sectors) boundaries. Is there any tool that can move/resize partitions and let you enter partition start/end positions as sector numbers (or byte number, but not just MB) and doesn't force cylinder alignment?
I tried:
- gparted: let you only enter MB which is too coarse a precision (but at least this doesn't force cylinder alignment)
- parted: let you enter sector numbers but cannot resize ext2/3 unless you disable some features, nor can move partitions to overlapping areas
- partition magic, acronis disc director, paragon partition manager: let you only enter MB and some also force cylinder alignment
Currently I either
-take a backup, create new partitions properly aligned with fdisk and then restore
-or resize partitions to a smaller size with gparted, create dummy partition at proper boundary with fdisk, and then enlarge back the original partition up to the boundary forced with the dummy partition
both of which are quite cumbersome...
