Yesterday I installed a couple of Western Digital Caviar Green drives. Today I read the following article:
http://www.osnews.com/story/22872/Linux_Not_Fully_Prepared_for_4096-Byte_Sector_Hard_Drives Sure enough, when I check my drives were unaligned. Thankfully LVM made repartitioning relatively painless. I didn't think to get exact numbers, but I can tell you based on personal experience as I watched a terabyte of data do the two step, aligning the partitions made a noticeable difference. -- "XML is like violence: if it doesn't solve your problem, you aren't using enough of it." - Chris Maden /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
