Re: Wheezy Installer Auto-Partition Oddity

[Patrick Bartek <bartek047@yahoo.com>]

----- Original Message -----
> From: Chris Davies <chris-usenet@roaima.co.uk>
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
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> Sent: Tuesday, January 8, 2013 5:04 AM
> Subject: Re: Wheezy Installer Auto-Partition Oddity
> 
> Mark Allums <mark@allums.com> wrote:
>>  If you are using LVM, you need to leave 1MB before and after the partition
>>  for metadata.  Some of the tools do this automatically for you.  If you
>>  don't like it, you can manually adjust the start and end yourself.
> 
> I use LVM and I'm pretty sure there are no such gaps on my disks.


I'm beginning to believe--I have no definitive proof, as yet--that the gaps are a simplistic partition alignment solution to maintain optimum hard drive performance for all hard drive(s) configurations, all RAIDs, all filesystems, etc.

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