On Friday 31 Aug 2012 01:45:40 Stayvoid wrote: > > Recent versions of fdiks, parted, gdisk do it for you. > > I use parted. > AFAICT it can tell that partitions aren't aligned, but there is no > option to do it automatically. > > Could you help me to do the math? All these bytes give me a headache. > > Thanks This is what I do: In parted, enter "unit b" to switch to bytes, because then you know what you're working with. I like to start my first partition at 1048576, which is 1Mb into the disk, and end it at 104857599, which makes it 99Mb long. After that, I use a single partition spanning the rest of the disk, starting at 104857600 (100Mb), and ending at a multiple of (1024*1024=1048576). I use LMV or RAID+LVM on top of that. Don't forget that the end point for each partition will be one byte before a Mb marker, so my first partition, ending at 104857599, is 1b before the 99Mb mark. The size of the partition includes this end byte, so the partition is a full 99Mb's worth of bytes. I hope this helps, Paul
