Unallocated small chunks being created in GParted when resizing partitions

Question

This might seem very trivial. Whenever I am resizing/deleting partitions in GParted Partition Editor there are always these 1.00 MiB unallocated chunks being created in between which is giving me difficulties when I am trying to merge two partitions in between which these small unallocated chunks of memory are present. I tried merging it with another partition but am not able to. it is pretty annoying. Any solutions to this

I ran the function sudo parted -l and did not find those unallocated chunks but here it is

But these are the chunks I am talking about

Answer 1

That is normal!

• Disk partitioning changed a while back to aligning partitions on 1MB boundaries (which improves performance on some modern hard disks and RAID arrays; IBM has an in-depth article on it).
• Logical partitions require one sector prior to each defined partition for a necessary data structure.

If you do not want them: change the alignment options. Parted nowadays has options to align partitions to the cylinder, to 1MB marks, or not at all.

2 other methods to get rid them:

• Primary partitions do not need the extra sector and can be aligned with no gaps; MBR only supports four primary partitions, so this isn't an option for all disks.

• Switch to GPT (GUID Partition Table): it supports up to 128 partitions by default and does not require space between partitions.