On Sun, 14 Feb 2010 12:26:30 -0700 Stuart Jansen <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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. > Bingo, thank you. Disk /dev/sdb: 1500.3 GB, 1500301910016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 182401 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0x000dd427 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdb1 * 1 30 240943+ 83 Linux /dev/sdb2 31 182401 1464895057+ 5 Extended /dev/sdb5 31 182401 1464895026 8e Linux LVM Now how do I re-align my drive? The first partition is /boot, so I don't really need to do that one. Are there GUI tools I can use, preferably on a live CD? Thanks -- Charles Curley /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ / Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com / \ No M$ Word docs in email Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0 809C FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
