On Tuesday, September 08, 2020 04:39:05 PM David Christensen wrote: > Neither the string "2 MiB" nor the string "2 M" appear on page you have > cited.
That is correct, that's is what I have not found on that page. > Please provide a URL that advocates "start the first partition at 2 MIB" Maybe I misinterpreted what David Wright said in an email responding to one of my questions back in June. <quote> Subject: Re: Advice on encrypted filesystem Date: Friday, June 26, 2020, 09:25:49 AM From: David Wright <deb...@lionunicorn.co.uk> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org ---< snip >--- If encrypting an entire disk, scramble the disk first, then partition. If only encrypting a partition, partition the disk first. *Alignments should be at least 2M (4096 x 512B sectors).* Scramble any sensitive pre-existing contents: </quote> I took that to mean that the first partition should start at 2 MiB.
