Re: Disk partition alignment
Marcos Felipe Rasia de Mello <[email protected]>
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2011/4/22 Gilles Espinasse <[email protected]>: > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Marcos Felipe Rasia de Mello" <[email protected]> > To: "Gilles Espinasse" <[email protected]>; <[email protected]> > Sent: Sunday, April 17, 2011 8:23 PM > Subject: Re: [IPCop-devel] Disk partition alignment > > [...] > To my understanding, cylinder alignment is a requirement from the past > except on sparc where the boot partition have to start on a cylinder > boudary. > http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Large-Disk-HOWTO-6.html > > So we should better not use cylinder as this concept was outdated long time > ago. > > Gilles Right. In the x86 world is cruft. With current IPCop SVN, just need to change "63s" to "2048s". http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/ipcop/browser/ipcop/trunk/src/scripts/disk-partition.sh#L107 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Fulfilling the Lean Software Promise Lean software platforms are now widely adopted and the benefits have been demonstrated beyond question. Learn why your peers are replacing JEE containers with lightweight application servers - and what you can gain from the move. http://p.sf.net/sfu/vmware-sfemails