Re: Doing a clean install doesn't work as it did before. Tried 8 times, but don't get results I am looking for??

Tim via users <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.general
Organization Me, organised? Are you kidding?!
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Tim:
> > Is it important about such small numbers?  (Considering the vast size
> > of modern drives.)
> > 
> > Is it leaving space for a large bootblock and partition tables?  Did
> > you think it needed more or less space to do that than it is?

Marco Moock:
> For SSDs, it is relevant for the alignment to avoid that a single write 
> command to a block on the file system causes multiple writes on the SSD.
> 
> https://www.diskgenius.com/how-to/4k-alignment.php
> 
> This is relevant if the physical storage areas (that need to be 
> completely rewritten if any bit needs to be changed) are smaller than 
> the logical (presented to the OS) areas are.
> Still called sectors here, even if SSDs do not have real sectors.

Are the positioning numbers real or simulated, though?

I still have as little faith in SSDs as USB flash drives.

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