Daniel Pocock <dan...@pocock.pro> wrote: > I've started a wiki about block alignment issues:
> https://wiki.debian.org/DiskBlockAlignment > Can anybody comment on specific packages / tools that may help people > investigate or update their systems, maybe adding links to the wiki? There is also an interesting "wrinkle" in the way the Debian installer lays out logical partitions in an extended partition. The extended partition will be _not_ aligned but offset, so that the logical partition (which contains the file system) is then correctly aligned. You have to keep that in mind, when looking at such a partition table with fdisk and calculating the alignment for the partitions. The extended one being unaligned is without consequences, because it does not directly contain the data but is just a mere container for the logical partition, which is correctly aligned. Example: Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 2048 40105983 20051968 83 Linux /dev/sda2 40108030 41940991 916481 5 Extended /dev/sda5 40108032 41940991 916480 82 Linux swap / Solaris sda2 -> 40108030/4096 -> 9791.99951171875 -> offset by 2 sectors to the front sda5 -> 40108032/4096 -> 9792 (aligned correctly) Grüße, Sven. -- Sigmentation fault. Core dumped.
