Re: SSD partition alignment considerations

2011-05-31 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
OCZ has an informative and still active user forum regarding SSD: http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/forum/showthread.php?54379-Linux-Tips-tweaks-and-alignment -- Best regards, Jörg-Volker. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble

Re: SSD partition alignment considerations

2011-05-31 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 31/05/11 10:20, Stan Hoeppner wrote: General consensus is to start your first partition at 1,048,576 bytes, as it is evenly divisible by 512, 4096, 131,072, and 524,288 bytes, covering all sector, filesystem block, and erase block size possibilities. General consensus by whom, Stan? Have yo

Re: SSD partition alignment considerations

2011-05-31 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 5/30/2011 10:39 PM, Cam Hutchison wrote: > I'm about to do a fresh install of Debian onto a new box with a Crucial > M4 128GB SSD. I want to ensure that I get the best performance I can out > of the SSD so I want to make sure I take care of any partition alignment > issues. > > I have read tyts