On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 02:59:32PM +0200, Mark Kettenis wrote:
> > Date: Sun, 22 May 2011 13:41:56 +0100
> > From: Stuart Henderson <[email protected]>
> >
> > nice, I like this :-) OK sthen@.
> >
> > > (One thing that's needed is a smarter rounding to 4k boundaries, if
> > > you work in units of M or G this works all out by itself, but above
> > > you can see that the partitions after /var end up on a non-4k boundary
> > > due to the relative 70% of free space change. Luckily this doesn't
> > > matter at all for most disks)
> >
> > fwiw, all new desktop/notebook HD platforms produced after 1/1/2011
> > (that's 1/1/2011 for USA folks with their strange date format) are
> > supposed to be using 4K sectors.
>
> With emphasis on *supposed to* ;).
Yep. Anyway, it isn't dificult to get the rounding right. But I'll
get this in first,
-Otto
