[dm-crypt] Re: misaligned ending sector, 4096-byte luks sector size can't be used

On 25/01/2022 13:20, Arno Wagner wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 24, 2022 at 23:10:34 CET, Milan Broz wrote:
>> On 24/01/2022 18:07, Chris Murphy wrote:
> [...]
>> The whole idea of misaligned backup GPT at the end of device is broken.
>> We should not follow that with adding hacks when the easy solution
>> is just to align a partition properly.
> 
> I fully agree to that. It is like having a virtual sector size and
> then selectively in some places only not sticking to it. Not smart
> and a gross KISS violation. And, of course, fundamental problems
> like this one should always be fixed were they are caused.

And it should be fixed in fdisk now:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/util-linux/util-linux.git/commit/?id=921c7da55ec78350e4067b3fd6b7de6f299106ee

Not sure if parted is maintained these days, but it should follow this approach...

Milan
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