Re: Wheezy Installer Auto-Partition Oddity

[Patrick Bartek <bartek047@yahoo.com>]

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> From: Go Linux <golinux@yahoo.com>
> To: "debian-user@lists.debian.org" <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
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> Sent: Wednesday, January 2, 2013 5:42 PM
> Subject: Re: Wheezy Installer Auto-Partition Oddity
> 
> --- On Wed, 1/2/13, Patrick Bartek <bartek047@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> 
>>  As I said in my original query, this partitioning was done
>>  automatically by the Wheezy installer.  I would have never
>>  partitioned that way myself.  Besides this is just a test
>>  install to root out any problems for when I do the real one
>>  on a real hard drive.
>> 
>> 
> 
> FWIW, the wheezy installer created the same partitioning scheme on a hard drive 
> install the first time I gave wheezy a run.  I found that rather odd and a good 
> reason to manually partition the drive prior to installing wheezy in the 
> future.  I usually do that but was being a bit lazy this one time.  ;)


Thanks.  Now, I know it's not just my install or a quirk in VirtualBox.  It's the installer.

Since my original post, I've been reading up on GPT.  Based on that, plus what others have posted here, it seems the cause of the gaps is a combination of aligning partitions based 4096 byte sectors, regardless of whether they are that size, and LVM needing unpartitioned space between partitions for metadata whether you're using LVM or not.  Mostly, the latter, I think.

Like you, for the real install, I'll just manually partition.  Gap, LVM and GPT "problems" solved.

B