Package: partman-partitioning Version: 91 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
partitions created by debian installer are not aligned to cylinders (MBR), or 1MiB (GPT). You can check by partitioning a disk using debian installer and then look at the partitions with cfdisk - you'll see an unusable space at the beginning and end of the disk, and asterisks at all partitins meaning it is not aligned. This is very inconvenient, if you need to partition a new drive with the same partitions, as cfdisk will not let you create unaligned partitions. One has to copy the partition table with dd or some other *fdisk tool. Similar problems are with GPT and gdisk. Even more problems arise if you want to repartition - extend the partition into unused space and keep the beginning at the same place. Please fix partman in debian installer, so that it makes partitions aligned in the same way as cfdisk/gdisk does. Best regards Vladislav Kurz -- System Information: Debian Release: 7.6 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'squeeze-lts'), (500, 'oldstable-updates'), (500, 'stable'), (500, 'oldstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-686-pae (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=, LC_CTYPE= (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
