Re: Wheezy Installer Auto-Partition Oddity
--- On Thu, 1/3/13, Patrick Bartek <bartek047@yahoo.com> wrote:
> From: Patrick Bartek <bartek047@yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: Wheezy Installer Auto-Partition Oddity
> To: "debian-user@lists.debian.org" <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
> Date: Thursday, January 3, 2013, 12:15 PM
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> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Go Linux <golinux@yahoo.com>
> > To: "debian-user@lists.debian.org"
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> > Sent: Wednesday, January 2, 2013 5:42 PM
> > Subject: Re: Wheezy Installer Auto-Partition Oddity
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> > --- 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. ;)
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>
> Thanks. Now, I know it's not just my install or a quirk in
> VirtualBox. It's the installer.
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> 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
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>
Just for the record . . . that install was to an old WD 80gb drive that was around long before the new sector changes.
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