On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 2:37 PM, Dieter Plaetinck <dieter@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. I vote for it :)
