Re: Wheezy Installer Auto-Partition Oddity
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> From: Bonno Bloksma <b.bloksma@tio.nl>
> To: "debian-user@lists.debian.org" <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
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> Sent: Friday, January 4, 2013 1:40 AM
> Subject: RE: Wheezy Installer Auto-Partition Oddity
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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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>> Mine, too. WD 160GB purchased late 2006. 512 byte sectors.
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> I don't think the installer looks at the disk type. It will just use 1M
> boundaries for starting a new partition.
Maybe, but I think it's something more than that. Has to be a rational reason, assuming it's not a bug.
> Why it ends the previous partition just beyond that 1M boundary and then has to
> skip 2047 512b sectors I do not know, that might be a minor bug.
Well, the installer partitioner on Debian 6 does exactly the same thing. And, D6 is what? almost 3 years old. Surely, if it were a bug, it would have been fixed by now. This type of partitioning is planned for whatever reason.
> And ah.... who the heck cares about 1M on a 100+ GB or nowadays on a 1+ TB disk?
> ;-)
Don't really. Just wanted to know why.
In fact, a few weeks ago I used the gparted LiveCD to resize some of the partitions on the drive this system runs on to install Wheezy on, and gparted put in gaps between the two new logical partitions I added even though this hard drive is MBR based. Got to be a reason for it.
B
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