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Date:      Sat, 02 Jan 2010 09:42:34 +0000
From:      "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To:        Ulrich =?utf-8?B?U3DDtnJsZWlu?= <uqs@spoerlein.net>
Cc:        Alexander Motin <mav@freebsd.org>, Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd@quip.cz>, Thomas Backman <serenity@exscape.org>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org, Pieter de Goeje <pieter@degoeje.nl>
Subject:   Re: File system blocks alignment 
Message-ID:  <67020.1262425354@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 02 Jan 2010 06:08:44 %2B0100." <20100102050843.GI3508@acme.spoerlein.net> 

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In message <20100102050843.GI3508@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...

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