Re: Wheezy Installer Auto-Partition Oddity
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> From: Go Linux <golinux@yahoo.com>
> To: "debian-user@lists.debian.org" <debian-user@lists.debian.org>; Patrick Bartek <bartek047@yahoo.com>
> Cc:
> Sent: Thursday, January 3, 2013 1:57 PM
> Subject: Re: Wheezy Installer Auto-Partition Oddity
>
> [snip]
>> >
>> > 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
>>
>>
>
> Just for the record . . . that install was to an old WD 80gb drive that was
> around long before the new sector changes.
Mine, too. WD 160GB purchased late 2006. 512 byte sectors.
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