On Tue, 23 Feb 2010 00:18:28 +0100 Jan de Groot <jan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, 2010-02-22 at 23:21 +0100, Tobias Powalowski wrote: > > Just poked around with grub2 and kvm, > > you really need the extra space, else it will fail to install. > > creating partitions with cfdisk will also leave this space. > > With nowadays RAID and SSD stuff you want to align your partitions on > stripe or blocksizes anyways. Some newer harddisks come with 4Kbyte > sectors and have a mapping to 512byte sectors so old OS'es can work > with it. You really want to align such devices, as performance is > terrible without it. > Err... I'm a bit lost. But anyway, you agree we need the -D flag? I'm not really into these alignment things, but if you guys say I should apply it, then I'll do it. Dieter
