Re: Wheezy Installer Auto-Partition Oddity
----- Original Message -----
> From: Darac Marjal <mailinglist@darac.org.uk>
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Cc:
> Sent: Tuesday, January 8, 2013 1:21 AM
> Subject: Re: Wheezy Installer Auto-Partition Oddity
>
> 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.
No, I hadn't. Thanks. However, I have noted in my searches that non-Debian users are experiencing the "gapping" as well. And they are equally at a loss to explain it as here on this list. So, it's not specifically a Debian quirk.
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