On Friday 11 January 2013 06:15:52 Bob Proulx wrote: > Lisi Reisz wrote: > > Bob Proulx wrote: > > > Grześ Andruszkiewicz wrote: > > > > Does the Debian installer work out of the box for SSDs? > > > > > > Wheezy 7.0, yes. Squeeze 6.0, no. > > > > Sorry, Bob, but I disagree. > > I could be wrong. :-) > > The part in particular I am thinking of is the installer partitioning > the SSD disk. I didn't think the Squeeze installer did 4k byte > alignment. I thought it did only 512 byte alignment. If the > partitions are not aligned then performance will suffer. Since as far > as I know all SSD devices use 4k alignments. > > > I installed Squeeze on an SSD both four months ago on my own new box > > and last weekend on my husband's, both times with no issues at all > > that were due to the SSD. > > I run Squeeze just fine on my SSD too. But I recall that I needed to > force the alignment prior to installing. > > Could you check your disk alignment? > > # sfdisk -d /dev/sda > > Bad (for SSDs, okay for spinning disks): > /dev/sda1 : start= 63, size= 995967, Id=83 > Good: > /dev/sda1 : start= 2048, size= 997376, Id=83
root@Tux-II:/home/lisi# sfdisk -d /dev/sda # partition table of /dev/sda unit: sectors /dev/sda1 : start= 2048, size= 58591232, Id=83, bootable /dev/sda2 : start= 0, size= 0, Id= 0 /dev/sda3 : start= 0, size= 0, Id= 0 /dev/sda4 : start= 0, size= 0, Id= 0 root@Tux-II:/home/lisi# > If it says 2048 and you didn't do anything to force it then I am wrong > and Squeeze supports it okay. And thank you for correcting me. :-) No forcing! That is on my box. My husband's is in use. > I had remembered needing to force the alignment. But maybe that was > in the previous release and I am simply confusing the two. I am sure > that the Wheezy 7.0 installer sets up the alignment properly. I just do practically a default installation, apart from refusing Gnome and adding print server and ssh server at the tasksel stage. Lisi -- 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/201301111038.06278.lisi.re...@gmail.com
