Rick Thomas wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > >> Using today's Debian you do not normally need to bother with alignment > >> as all partitions will be automatically aligned at 1 MiB boundaries by > >> most of the tools anyway. > > > > Agreed. No need to worry about it with a default Wheezy or later > > installation. All handled automatically. > > This is true for i386 and amd64, but for (at least) powerpc (I don’t > know about mips, arm* etc) the megabyte boundary alignment fixes > haven’t found it into the installer’s partition modules yet. > > For PowerPC. you *do* have to be careful and partition manually if > you are using SSD or “advanced format” hard disks. Ah... I had not known about the bug on PowerPC. Good to know. Thanks! Bob
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