Re: How to get installer to align partitions on 4096 byte boundaries?

2014-05-08 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Mon, 05 May 2014, Rick Thomas wrote: Bottom line: It doesn't align to 1MiB boundaries. It doesn't even align to 4KiB boundaries. I think we can do better than that! AFAIK, we do for i686 and amd64, unless it somehow got broken since wheezy. lvm, md-raid/mdadm, mke2fs and mkfs.xfs were

Re: How to get installer to align partitions on 4096 byte boundaries?

2014-05-08 Thread Rick Thomas
On May 8, 2014, at 8:01 AM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh h...@debian.org wrote: On Mon, 05 May 2014, Rick Thomas wrote: Bottom line: It doesn't align to 1MiB boundaries. It doesn't even align to 4KiB boundaries. I think we can do better than that! AFAIK, we do for i686 and amd64, unless

Re: How to get installer to align partitions on 4096 byte boundaries?

2014-05-08 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Thu, 08 May 2014, Rick Thomas wrote: However, it seems that nobody looked at the PowerPC. If they use parted for that, then Henrique's point about it being complicated is probably spot-on. I'd like to file a bug report, so at least the problem is on the permanent record. Henrique, can

Re: How to get installer to align partitions on 4096 byte boundaries?

2014-05-05 Thread Rick Thomas
On May 4, 2014, at 1:14 AM, Rick Thomas rbtho...@pobox.com wrote: On Apr 27, 2014, at 2:54 AM, Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: On Sb, 26 apr 14, 20:24:12, Rick Thomas wrote: With more and more disks being manufactured with Advanced format (4096-byte physical-sectors)

Re: How to get installer to align partitions on 4096 byte boundaries?

2014-05-04 Thread Rick Thomas
On Apr 27, 2014, at 2:54 AM, Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: On Sb, 26 apr 14, 20:24:12, Rick Thomas wrote: With more and more disks being manufactured with Advanced format (4096-byte physical-sectors) I'm wondering how I can tell the Debian-installer partitioner to align

Re: How to get installer to align partitions on 4096 byte boundaries?

2014-05-04 Thread Joel Rees
On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 5:14 PM, Rick Thomas rbtho...@pobox.com wrote: [...] So I ask again: Aside from doing the partitioning manually, myself, is there any way to get the installer's partitioner to respect the new guidelines for Advanced Format and SSD/flash disks? Have you tried not

Re: How to get installer to align partitions on 4096 byte boundaries?

2014-05-04 Thread Rick Thomas
On May 4, 2014, at 1:24 AM, Joel Rees joel.r...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 5:14 PM, Rick Thomas rbtho...@pobox.com wrote: [...] So I ask again: Aside from doing the partitioning manually, myself, is there any way to get the installer's partitioner to respect the new

Re: How to get installer to align partitions on 4096 byte boundaries?

2014-05-04 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
* Rick Thomas rbtho...@pobox.com [2014-05-04 01:14 -0700]: [...] root@bigal:~# mac-fdisk -l /dev/sda /dev/sda #type name length base ( size ) system /dev/sda1 Apple_partition_map Apple 63 @ 1 ( 31.5k)

Re: How to get installer to align partitions on 4096 byte boundaries?

2014-05-04 Thread Rick Thomas
On May 4, 2014, at 1:28 PM, Elimar Riesebieter riese...@lxtec.de wrote: * Rick Thomas rbtho...@pobox.com [2014-05-04 01:14 -0700]: [...] root@bigal:~# mac-fdisk -l /dev/sda /dev/sda #type name length base ( size ) system /dev/sda1

Re: How to get installer to align partitions on 4096 byte boundaries?

2014-05-04 Thread Joel Rees
On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 11:53 PM, Rick Thomas rbtho...@pobox.com wrote: On May 4, 2014, at 1:24 AM, Joel Rees joel.r...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 5:14 PM, Rick Thomas rbtho...@pobox.com wrote: [...] So I ask again: Aside from doing the partitioning manually, myself, is