Bug#690487: default alignment of partitions

2012-10-15 Thread martin f krafft
reassign 690487 cfdisk thanks also sprach Samuel Thibault sthiba...@debian.org [2012.10.14.2206 +0200]: AFAWK, this is already the case in the latest installers (including the Squeeze installer). If you noticed it not to be the case in some situation, please describe the situation, otherwise

Bug#690487: default alignment of partitions

2012-10-14 Thread martin f krafft
Package: debian-installer Severity: wishlist In cases where d-i creates partition tables or disk labels, it should do so using 4k boundaries, as most new disks use 4k physical sectors. Misaligning the filesystem would result in 50 % degraded drive performance in those case. Essentially, instead

Bug#690487: default alignment of partitions

2012-10-14 Thread Samuel Thibault
martin f krafft, le Sun 14 Oct 2012 21:57:38 +0200, a écrit : In cases where d-i creates partition tables or disk labels, it should do so using 4k boundaries, as most new disks use 4k physical sectors. AFAWK, this is already the case in the latest installers (including the Squeeze installer).