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Re: Wheezy Installer Auto-Partition Oddity

On 02/01/13 04:25 PM, Patrick Bartek wrote:

In preparation of a clean install of Wheezy, I did a test install in VirtualBox 3.1.8 running under  Fedora 12 64-bit.  To save time, I used the installer's default partitioning scheme.  Normally I custom partition.  Anyway, I noticed an oddity:  There are gaps between the partitions.  Sizable ones.  Plus, sda1 starts at 2048, not 1.  I don't know if this is due to the installer partitioner or a quirk in VirtualBox.  I noticed this on a VB install of Debian 6, too, on the same system.  Anybody got any ideas on the why?  Wasn't able to find anything applicable on net searches.

Here's the output for fdisk -l on the Wheezy virtual hard drive.

Disk /dev/sda: 8589 MB, 8589934592 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1044 cylinders, total 16777216 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000d6c53

    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *        2048    15988735     7993344   83  Linux
/dev/sda2        15990782    16775167      392193    5  Extended
/dev/sda5        15990784    16775167      392192   82  Linux swap / Solaris


Thanks.

B
Using GPT, the first partition starts at 2048. Get used to it. Seriously, this is how disks are partitioned these days.
You have an extended partition for swap space. I'd remove it and make the swap partition a primary partition if you really want a swap partition. No need for two partition tables on a disk with only two real partitions.
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