Re: Disk partition alignment

Marcos Felipe Rasia de Mello <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.ipcop.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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 So we should better not use cylinder as this concept was outdated long time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

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