On Wed, 24 Feb 2010 16:02:53 -0600 Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 :) committed. thank you. http://projects.archlinux.org/aif.git/commit/?h=experimental&id=aa80222dfd8b99da392236d139517076b3292cf6 if anything is broken, blame Mark :) Dieter
