Re: Install of 5.4 i386 formatting is very slow

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of fred smith
> Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2010 16:26
> To: 'CentOS mailing list'
> Subject: Re:  Install of 5.4 i386 formatting is very slow
> 
> On Thu, May 06, 2010 at 02:16:05PM -0400, Jason Pyeron wrote:
> > It is writing an inode every 10 seconds. (1621 inodes in total)
> > 
> > It is a recent Seagate sata HD.
> > 
> > MB=Jetway J7F5M1G2E-VHE-PB
> 
> Is this one of the new 4096-bytes-per-sector Seagate drives? 
> If so, you need to do some research around the 'net to find 
> recommended procedures for aligning partitions. without 
> partitions properly aligned (so that they start on a 
> 4096-byte boundary) things are said to get veeeerrrrrrry 

ST3250824AS 250 Gbytes (488,397,168 bytes) 512 byte per sector.

> sloooooooowwwwwww (though I have no personal experience of 
> it, so I can't speak to HOW slow.)
> 
> 
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