Nevermind, on closer inspection, my disk has exactly 1 MB free at the beginning, as it's been partitioned with ubiquity and therefore follows the best-practice of 4k properly aligned sectors.
So to answer my own question: No, this does not change this particular issue - these two things are not related :)
Nevermind, on closer inspection, my disk has exactly 1 MB free at the beginning, as it's been partitioned with ubiquity and therefore follows the best-practice of 4k properly aligned sectors.
So to answer my own question: No, this does not change this particular issue - these two things are not related :)