Re: How to get installer to align partitions on 4096 byte boundaries?

2014-05-08 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Mon, 05 May 2014, Rick Thomas wrote: Bottom line: It doesn't align to 1MiB boundaries. It doesn't even align to 4KiB boundaries. I think we can do better than that! AFAIK, we do for i686 and amd64, unless it somehow got broken since wheezy. lvm, md-raid/mdadm, mke2fs and mkfs.xfs were

Re: How to get installer to align partitions on 4096 byte boundaries?

2014-05-08 Thread Rick Thomas
On May 8, 2014, at 8:01 AM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh h...@debian.org wrote: On Mon, 05 May 2014, Rick Thomas wrote: Bottom line: It doesn't align to 1MiB boundaries. It doesn't even align to 4KiB boundaries. I think we can do better than that! AFAIK, we do for i686 and amd64, unless

Re: How to get installer to align partitions on 4096 byte boundaries?

2014-05-08 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Thu, 08 May 2014, Rick Thomas wrote: However, it seems that nobody looked at the PowerPC. If they use parted for that, then Henrique's point about it being complicated is probably spot-on. I'd like to file a bug report, so at least the problem is on the permanent record. Henrique, can

Re: How to get installer to align partitions on 4096 byte boundaries?

2014-05-05 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
* Rick Thomas rbtho...@pobox.com [2014-05-04 15:46 -0700]: On May 4, 2014, at 1:28 PM, Elimar Riesebieter riese...@lxtec.de wrote: * Rick Thomas rbtho...@pobox.com [2014-05-04 01:14 -0700]: [...] root@bigal:~# mac-fdisk -l /dev/sda /dev/sda #type name

Re: How to get installer to align partitions on 4096 byte boundaries?

2014-05-05 Thread Rick Thomas
On May 4, 2014, at 1:14 AM, Rick Thomas rbtho...@pobox.com wrote: On Apr 27, 2014, at 2:54 AM, Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: On Sb, 26 apr 14, 20:24:12, Rick Thomas wrote: With more and more disks being manufactured with Advanced format (4096-byte physical-sectors)

Re: How to get installer to align partitions on 4096 byte boundaries?

2014-05-05 Thread Rick Thomas
On May 5, 2014, at 12:15 AM, Elimar Riesebieter riese...@lxtec.de wrote: I don't run a 4k hd in my powerbook. But in one of my amd64 machines there is one (Seagate ST1000DM003) running with an gpt partition table partitioned exactly by the 1MiB steps. I'v done this with gdisk but should also

Re: How to get installer to align partitions on 4096 byte boundaries?

2014-05-05 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
* Rick Thomas rbtho...@pobox.com [2014-05-05 01:04 -0700]: On May 5, 2014, at 12:15 AM, Elimar Riesebieter riese...@lxtec.de wrote: I don't run a 4k hd in my powerbook. But in one of my amd64 machines there is one (Seagate ST1000DM003) running with an gpt partition table partitioned

Re: How to get installer to align partitions on 4096 byte boundaries?

2014-05-04 Thread Rick Thomas
On Apr 27, 2014, at 2:54 AM, Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: On Sb, 26 apr 14, 20:24:12, Rick Thomas wrote: With more and more disks being manufactured with Advanced format (4096-byte physical-sectors) I'm wondering how I can tell the Debian-installer partitioner to align

Re: How to get installer to align partitions on 4096 byte boundaries?

2014-05-04 Thread Joel Rees
On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 5:14 PM, Rick Thomas rbtho...@pobox.com wrote: [...] So I ask again: Aside from doing the partitioning manually, myself, is there any way to get the installer's partitioner to respect the new guidelines for Advanced Format and SSD/flash disks? Have you tried not

Re: How to get installer to align partitions on 4096 byte boundaries?

2014-05-04 Thread Rick Thomas
On May 4, 2014, at 1:24 AM, Joel Rees joel.r...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 5:14 PM, Rick Thomas rbtho...@pobox.com wrote: [...] So I ask again: Aside from doing the partitioning manually, myself, is there any way to get the installer's partitioner to respect the new

Re: How to get installer to align partitions on 4096 byte boundaries?

2014-05-04 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
* Rick Thomas rbtho...@pobox.com [2014-05-04 01:14 -0700]: [...] root@bigal:~# mac-fdisk -l /dev/sda /dev/sda #type name length base ( size ) system /dev/sda1 Apple_partition_map Apple 63 @ 1 ( 31.5k)

Re: How to get installer to align partitions on 4096 byte boundaries?

2014-05-04 Thread Rick Thomas
On May 4, 2014, at 1:28 PM, Elimar Riesebieter riese...@lxtec.de wrote: * Rick Thomas rbtho...@pobox.com [2014-05-04 01:14 -0700]: [...] root@bigal:~# mac-fdisk -l /dev/sda /dev/sda #type name length base ( size ) system /dev/sda1

Re: How to get installer to align partitions on 4096 byte boundaries?

2014-05-04 Thread Joel Rees
On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 11:53 PM, Rick Thomas rbtho...@pobox.com wrote: On May 4, 2014, at 1:24 AM, Joel Rees joel.r...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 5:14 PM, Rick Thomas rbtho...@pobox.com wrote: [...] So I ask again: Aside from doing the partitioning manually, myself, is