Re: [CentOS] Partition alignment

2009-11-10 Thread Scott McClanahan
On Tue, 2009-11-10 at 02:33 -0800, John Doe wrote: > From: Scott McClanahan > > I'd like to use cobbler > > for dynamically creating kickstart scripts and wasn't sure if I could > > align my disk during install some how. Are there kickstart arguments to > > force the alignment on a 4k boundary?

Re: [CentOS] Partition alignment

2009-11-10 Thread John Doe
From: Scott McClanahan > I'd like to use cobbler > for dynamically creating kickstart scripts and wasn't sure if I could > align my disk during install some how. Are there kickstart arguments to > force the alignment on a 4k boundary? Have any of you had to do this? Personaly, I run a pre_kicks

Re: [CentOS] Partition alignment

2009-11-10 Thread Rubin
Hi Scott, Fwiw, I'm doing this for DMX 4 and DMX 5 (vmax) by 128k sectors, as recommended by EMC in their document "Implementing Virtual Provisioning On EMC Symmetrix DMX With Oracle 10g & Oracle 11g". Essentially, the DMX 3 and earlier had a 32kb tracksize (by default, afaik) which meant that th

Re: [CentOS] Partition alignment

2009-11-09 Thread nate
Scott McClanahan wrote: > I'll be setting up a vSphere 4 environment hosting CentOS 5.4 on Netapp > FAS and was curious how you guys are handling the automation of > partition alignment within your linux guests. I'd like to use cobbler > for dynamically creating kickstart scripts and wasn't sure i

[CentOS] Partition alignment

2009-11-09 Thread Scott McClanahan
I'll be setting up a vSphere 4 environment hosting CentOS 5.4 on Netapp FAS and was curious how you guys are handling the automation of partition alignment within your linux guests. I'd like to use cobbler for dynamically creating kickstart scripts and wasn't sure if I could align my disk during i