Am Mittwoch, 12. Oktober 2011 schrieb Ad L.: > Regardless of the possibility to use the space, I ALWAYS leave the > first cylinder of a disk unused (aligning partitions to cylinder > boundaries). I find the idea of using the first cylinder for "optimal" > space usage a bit ridiculous, to be honest. With thousands of > cylinders on a disk, if not more, a single unused cylinder doesn't > matter all that much (we're talking about 8032.5 Kilobytes here). And > keeping it (and maybe the last one) free means these problems simply > don't turn up at all, with over 7MBytes available for the bootloader. > Is there any boot loader available that would use need much?
Better align to 1 MiB boundaries as newer fdisk versions do with -c, newer parted version do and I think gdisk does too. This should cover alignment issues on SSDs, softraids and harddisks with 4 KiB sectors. -- Martin 'Helios' Steigerwald - http://www.Lichtvoll.de GPG: 03B0 0D6C 0040 0710 4AFA B82F 991B EAAC A599 84C7 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201110121959.10933.mar...@lichtvoll.de
