Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Apple Partition Map" in English language version.
...a standard block size of 512 bytes...Apple did consider extending APM to support larger disks. However, as such a change would break all existing partitioning tools...
While the original intent was to handle various block sizes, in practice only 512 byte blocks are supported.
Comment: The commandpdisk -l /dev/sdashows a size of 63 blocks for theApple_partition_map. There is a multitude of examples like this to be found on the internet.
Comment: The commandpdisk -l /dev/sdashows a size of 63 blocks for theApple_partition_map. There is a multitude of examples like this to be found on the internet.
