In message <20100102050843.GI3508_at_acme.spoerlein.net>, Ulrich =?utf-8?B?U3DDtnJ sZWlu?= writes: >Sysinstall, fdisk, gpart >and bsdlabel should all display some fat warning if partition/label >alignment is not, say at 256kB (a common stripe size, right?) You overlook that MBR/Fdisk requires bootable slices to start at a "track". That means that the propper slice-alignmen typically will be 8*63=504 sectors. Unless you want to explore how many BIOS'es still are stupid about this... -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk_at_FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.Received on Sat Jan 02 2010 - 08:41:58 UTC
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