On Sunday 08 February 2015 06:29:00 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Sunday, February 08, 2015 12:59:11 AM Bob Proulx wrote: > > Gene Heskett wrote: > > > The alignment seems to be bad on every partition if you do it by hand, > > > but if you just let it use the whole disk, the first parttition is > > > good, but the swap seems out of kilter and probably slow if and when I > > > ever get into swap. > > > > But your swap was aligned just fine. You showed: > > > /dev/sda5 1919979520 1953523711 16772096 82 Linux swap / > > > Solaris > > > > That is aligned okay. No need to complain about it. Use it. It is > > aligned okay. > > > > Bob > > Then why is fdisk complaining?: > > root@coyote:/home/amanda/amanda-3.3.6# fdisk -l /dev/sda > > Disk /dev/sda: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121601 cylinders, total 1953525168 sectors > Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes > Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes > I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes > Disk identifier: 0x000657ed > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/sda1 * 2048 1919977471 959987712 83 Linux > /dev/sda2 1919979518 1953523711 16772097 5 Extended > Partition 2 does not start on physical sector boundary. <------here > /dev/sda5 1919979520 1953523711 16772096 82 Linux swap / > Solaris > > But do the math, and it is aligned. fdisk is lying? IDK. > > Thanks Bob.
Partition 2 IS NOT SWAP. Partition *5* is swap. Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/201502080701.56820.lisi.re...@gmail.com