Aligning a partiton with setup-storage

Patrick Cervicek patrick at failist.spamtrap.hs-esslingen.de
Mon Apr 18 18:35:15 CEST 2011


On Mon, 18 Apr 2011, Michael Tautschnig wrote:

>> experimental87 is not throwing any errors, but the align-at option
>> doesn't work
>>
>
> I'm not sure I agree. But that might be because my interpretation of alignment
> is not quite accurate.
>
> [...]
>>    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
>> /dev/sda1              63      614455      307196+  83  Linux
>> Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
>> /dev/sda2          614456     6291447     2838496   83  Linux
> [...]
> 
> Please just let me know whether the start of the first partition is your
> indication of align-at not working. If yes, I'll come up with a fix pretty soon.

Yes, the second partition is ok. We are also interessted in gettig the 
first partition aligned (without this "msdos-compability" feature)

see
https://lists.uni-koeln.de/pipermail/linux-fai/2011-March/009004.html

Patrick


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