Re: [arch-general] How to align partitions?

> Could you help me to do the math? All these bytes give me a headache. I used fdisk. Looks like that it automatically aligns everything. Could anyone confirm this? Cheers

Re: [arch-general] How to align partitions?

> Recent versions of fdiks, parted, gdisk do it for you. I use parted. AFAICT it can tell that partitions aren't aligned, but there is no option to do it automatically. Could you help me to do the math? All these bytes give me a headache. Thanks

[arch-general] How to align partitions?

Hi, I'd like to know how to create aligned partitions on a 160GB disk which uses a 512B sector size. (Partition table: msdos) I've got the theory [1, 2], but I can't make it work. I'd like to have three partitions: 1. ext3 ~ 100mb /boot 2. linux-swap ~ 1GB swap 3. ext3 (for the rest of the syste