Bug#614632: Disk partitions not created along cylinder boundaries

2017-07-27 Thread Jaap Winius
Quoting Andreas Henriksson : Thanks for your bug report (and sorry for the very late followup). On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 07:51:28PM +0100, Jaap Winius wrote: Package: netinstall Version: Debian GNU/Linux 6.0.0 "Squeeze" - Official i386 NETINST Binary-1, 20110205-14:34 A

Bug#614632: Disk partitions not created along cylinder boundaries

2017-07-27 Thread Andreas Henriksson
Control: tags -1 + moreinfo Hello Jaap Winius, Thanks for your bug report (and sorry for the very late followup). On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 07:51:28PM +0100, Jaap Winius wrote: > Package: netinstall > Version: Debian GNU/Linux 6.0.0 "Squeeze" - Official i386 NETINST Binary-1, > 20110205-14:34 >

Bug#614632: Disk partitions not created along cylinder boundaries

2011-02-23 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 07:51:28PM +0100, Jaap Winius wrote: When a disk is partitioned, the partitions are later found to not end/start on cylinder boundaries. For example: This is entirely intentional. No remotely modern disk requires partitions to be aligned on cylinder boundaries, and

Bug#614632: Disk partitions not created along cylinder boundaries

2011-02-23 Thread Jaap Winius
Quoting Colin Watson cjwat...@debian.org: This is entirely intentional. No remotely modern disk requires partitions to be aligned on cylinder boundaries, and cylinder alignment is very bad indeed for performance on many modern disks ... That's good to hear! I was concerned, because fdisk

Bug#614632: Disk partitions not created along cylinder boundaries

2011-02-23 Thread Colin Watson
reassign 614632 util-linux retitle 614632 fdisk: error message about cylinder alignment confuses people into thinking the partitioner is wrong thanks On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 02:54:52PM +0100, Jaap Winius wrote: Quoting Colin Watson cjwat...@debian.org: This is entirely intentional. No

Bug#614632: Disk partitions not created along cylinder boundaries

2011-02-22 Thread Jaap Winius
Package: netinstall Version: Debian GNU/Linux 6.0.0 Squeeze - Official i386 NETINST Binary-1, 20110205-14:34 When a disk is partitioned, the partitions are later found to not end/start on cylinder boundaries. For example: ~# fdisk -l /dev/sda Disk /dev/sda: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes