Re: Installing Debian on an SSD

[Patrick Bartek <bartek047@yahoo.com>]

----- Original Message -----
> From: Bob Proulx <bob@proulx.com>
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Cc: 
> Sent: Tuesday, January 8, 2013 11:48 AM
> Subject: Re: Installing Debian on an SSD
> 
> [snip]
>>  I.e. I heard that you need to align the partitions to 32bit virtual
>>  clusters (is it actually true?).
> 
> The Wheezy 7.0 installer will do the right thing automatically.
> 
> Earlier in this mailing list there has been much discussion about
> partition alignments because people see what looks like wasted space
> but is there specifically to work with the new advanced format
> partitioning.  It will work fine.
> [snip]

I'm the one who started the discussion.  Can you elaborate on the details of why the "gapping" is needed?  Or a reference link would be even better.

Thanks.

B