On Sat, 18 Sep 2010, Michael Tautschnig wrote:
Thanks again for providing all the information; I have finally implemented an
"align-at" option in a patch included in 4.0~beta2+experimental7. It would be
great if you could give that one a try. The use is as follows:
disk_config sda align-at:4K
...
which should make all non-preserved partitions start at multiples of 4k-blocks
and also have them end at proper points such that no holes appear. Testing and
feedback would be much appreciated.
We upgraded fai-setup-storage but now the "align-at:4k disklabel:msdos"
option does not longer work. It looks like patch revision 6285 is causing
this:
http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/fai/branches/experimental/patches/setup-storage_no-cylinder-boundaries?op=diff&rev=6285&sc=1
After reverting this patch everything worked again.
We do not need backward compatibility for our clients. Could you
please build in e.g. a "--force-alignment" option so we can still use partition
alignment?
Patrick
