Comment 17 for bug 521045

1MiB boundaries are optimal for they also align with 128KiB and 256KiB which could be used in solid disk hardware.

Now how to do this using fdisk:
My thought of using of 32 heads and 64 sectors per cylinder doesn't work for older fdisk versions (openSUSE11.2).
Let's try the other way round:
"fdisk -L -H 64 -S 32 /dev/sdb"
I did create an new empty DOS partition table with "o". And I started the first partition at cylinder 2
This looks like:
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root@maci:/etc# fdisk -L -l /dev/sdb
GNU Fdisk 1.2.4
....
Disk /dev/sdb: 4 GB, 4127195136 bytes
64 heads, 32 sectors/track, 3936 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 2048 * 512 = 1048576 bytes

   Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 2 935 957408 c FAT32 LBA
/dev/sdb2 * 936 3936 3072000 83 Linux
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Now showing with sector numbers:
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root@maci:/etc# fdisk -L -l -u /dev/sdb
GNU Fdisk 1.2.4
....
Disk /dev/sdb: 4 GB, 4127195136 bytes
64 heads, 32 sectors/track, 3936 cylinders, total 8060928 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes

   Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 2048 1914879 957408 c FAT32 LBA
/dev/sdb2 * 1914880 8060927 3072000 83 Linux
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I think such a restriction when partitioning should be totally compatible with Vista/Win7 and should be performant using any of the solid state disks. ... But I don't know how to consider an offset of -1 of some of those disks :(