On Mon, Jan 07, 2013 at 10:10:30PM -0800, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > I understand the need to align partitions particularly when dealing with RAIDed drives. It's just that I thought partitioning utilities for some years now have automatically aligned partitions. However, I've never noticed 1MiB gaps until recently. Of course, I have always manually partitioned in cylinders. > > > At any rate, let the tool add the space; it even will calculated the correct > > size and sector alignment for you. It may be untidy, but it does no harm. > > It's not that a megabyte here or there is lost. It's the not knowing "why" that's bothersome. Have you thought about talking to the debian-boot people (mailto:debian-boot@lists.debian.org, irc://irc.debian.org/debian-boot)? The poeple on Debian-Boot are more likely to know about the internals of the installer.
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