- Original Message -
> From: Chris Davies
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Cc:
> Sent: Wednesday, January 9, 2013 2:27 AM
> Subject: Re: Wheezy Installer Auto-Partition Oddity
>
> Patrick Bartek wrote:
>> I'm beginning to believe--I have n
Patrick Bartek wrote:
> I'm beginning to believe--I have no definitive proof, as yet--that
> the gaps are a simplistic partition alignment solution to maintain
> optimum hard drive performance for all hard drive(s) configurations,
> all RAIDs, all filesystems, etc.
I wouldn't mind hearing the ans
- Original Message -
> From: Chris Davies
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Cc:
> Sent: Tuesday, January 8, 2013 5:04 AM
> Subject: Re: Wheezy Installer Auto-Partition Oddity
>
> Mark Allums wrote:
>> If you are using LVM, you need to leave 1MB bef
- Original Message -
> From: Darac Marjal
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Cc:
> Sent: Tuesday, January 8, 2013 1:21 AM
> Subject: Re: Wheezy Installer Auto-Partition Oddity
>
> On Mon, Jan 07, 2013 at 10:10:30PM -0800, Patrick Bartek wrote:
>>
&
Mark Allums wrote:
> If you are using LVM, you need to leave 1MB before and after the partition
> for metadata. Some of the tools do this automatically for you. If you
> don't like it, you can manually adjust the start and end yourself.
I use LVM and I'm pretty sure there are no such gaps on my
On Mon, Jan 07, 2013 at 10:10:30PM -0800, Patrick Bartek wrote:
>
> I understand the need to align partitions particularly when dealing with
> RAIDed drives. It's just that I thought partitioning utilities for some
> years now have automatically aligned partitions. However, I've never noticed
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> From: Mark Allums
> To: 'Debian User'
> Cc:
> Sent: Sunday, January 6, 2013 1:26 PM
> Subject: RE: Wheezy Installer Auto-Partition Oddity
>
>
> [snip]
>>
>> So, again I ask: Why that 1MiB unpartitioned space
>From: Patrick Bartek [mailto:bartek...@yahoo.com]
>> From: Tom H
>> On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 1:25 PM, Patrick Bartek
wrote:
>>> From: Roger Leigh
LVM does not use unpartitioned space for anything TTBOMK. It uses
physical volumes (PVs) which are block devices (either partitions or
>
On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 1:00 PM, Patrick Bartek wrote:
>> From: Tom H
>> Sent: Saturday, January 5, 2013 4:32 AM
>> On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 1:25 PM, Patrick Bartek
>> wrote:
>>> From: Roger Leigh
>>> Sent: Friday, January 4, 2013 3:02 AM
LVM does not use unpartitioned space for anything
- Original Message -
> From: Tom H
> To: Debian User
> Cc:
> Sent: Saturday, January 5, 2013 4:32 AM
> Subject: Re: Wheezy Installer Auto-Partition Oddity
>
> On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 1:25 PM, Patrick Bartek
> wrote:
>> From: Roger Leigh
>> S
On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 1:25 PM, Patrick Bartek wrote:
> From: Roger Leigh
> Sent: Friday, January 4, 2013 3:02 AM
>>
>> LVM does not use unpartitioned space for anything TTBOMK. It uses
>> physical volumes (PVs) which are block devices (either partitions or
>> whole disks or RAID arrays etc.). Th
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> From: Roger Leigh
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Cc:
> Sent: Friday, January 4, 2013 3:02 AM
> Subject: Re: Wheezy Installer Auto-Partition Oddity
>
> On Thu, Jan 03, 2013 at 10:15:09AM -0800, Patrick Bartek wrote:
>> Since
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> From: Bonno Bloksma
> To: "debian-user@lists.debian.org"
> Cc:
> Sent: Friday, January 4, 2013 1:40 AM
> Subject: RE: Wheezy Installer Auto-Partition Oddity
>
> [snip]
>>>
>>>
>>> Just for the record
--- On Fri, 1/4/13, Bonno Bloksma wrote:
> From: Bonno Bloksma
> Subject: RE: Wheezy Installer Auto-Partition Oddity
> To: "debian-user@lists.debian.org"
> Date: Friday, January 4, 2013, 3:40 AM
> Hi, Patrick,
>
> >> [snip]
> >>> >
&g
On Thu, Jan 03, 2013 at 10:15:09AM -0800, Patrick Bartek wrote:
> Since my original post, I've been reading up on GPT. Based on that, plus
> what others have posted here, it seems the cause of the gaps is a combination
> of aligning partitions based 4096 byte sectors, regardless of whether they
>
On Thu, Jan 03, 2013 at 10:15:09AM -0800, Patrick Bartek wrote:
>
>
> Thanks. Now, I know it's not just my install or a quirk in VirtualBox. It's
> the installer.
>
> Since my original post, I've been reading up on GPT. Based on that, plus
> what others have posted here, it seems the cause
Hi, Patrick,
>> [snip]
>>> >
>>> > FWIW, the wheezy installer created the same partitioning scheme
>>> on a hard drive > install the first time I gave wheezy a run. I
>>> found that rather odd and a good > reason to manually partition the
>>> drive prior to installing wheezy in the > f
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> From: Go Linux
> To: "debian-user@lists.debian.org" ; Patrick
> Bartek
> Cc:
> Sent: Thursday, January 3, 2013 1:57 PM
> Subject: Re: Wheezy Installer Auto-Partition Oddity
>
> [snip]
>> >
>> > FWIW, th
--- On Thu, 1/3/13, Patrick Bartek wrote:
> From: Patrick Bartek
> Subject: Re: Wheezy Installer Auto-Partition Oddity
> To: "debian-user@lists.debian.org"
> Date: Thursday, January 3, 2013, 12:15 PM
>
>
>
>
> - Original Message -
>
- Original Message -
> From: Mark Allums
> To: 'Bonno Bloksma' ; 'Patrick Bartek'
> ; debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Cc:
> Sent: Thursday, January 3, 2013 4:39 AM
> Subject: RE: Wheezy Installer Auto-Partition Oddity
>
>> From:
- Original Message -
> From: Bonno Bloksma
> To: Patrick Bartek ; "debian-user@lists.debian.org"
>
> Cc:
> Sent: Wednesday, January 2, 2013 11:04 PM
> Subject: RE: Wheezy Installer Auto-Partition Oddity
>
> Hi Patrick,
>
>> In prepar
- Original Message -
> From: Go Linux
> To: "debian-user@lists.debian.org"
> Cc:
> Sent: Wednesday, January 2, 2013 5:42 PM
> Subject: Re: Wheezy Installer Auto-Partition Oddity
>
> --- On Wed, 1/2/13, Patrick Bartek wrote:
>>
>> As I s
> From: Bonno Bloksma [mailto:b.blok...@tio.nl]
> To: Patrick Bartek; debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Hi Patrick,
>
> > In preparation of a clean install of Wheezy, I did a test install in
VirtualBox
> 3.1.8 running under Fedora 12 64-bit.
> > To save time, I used the installer's default partition
Hi Patrick,
> In preparation of a clean install of Wheezy, I did a test install in
> VirtualBox 3.1.8 running under Fedora 12 64-bit.
> To save time, I used the installer's default partitioning scheme. Normally I
> custom partition.
> Anyway, I noticed an oddity: There are gaps between the p
--- On Wed, 1/2/13, Patrick Bartek wrote:
>
> As I said in my original query, this partitioning was done
> automatically by the Wheezy installer. I would have never
> partitioned that way myself. Besides this is just a test
> install to root out any problems for when I do the real one
> on a re
- Original Message -
> From: Gary Dale
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Cc: "debian-user@lists.debian.org"
> Sent: Wednesday, January 2, 2013 1:52 PM
> Subject: Re: Wheezy Installer Auto-Partition Oddity
>
> On 02/01/13 04:25 PM, Patrick Bartek
On 02/01/13 04:25 PM, Patrick Bartek wrote:
In preparation of a clean install of Wheezy, I did a test install in VirtualBox
3.1.8 running under Fedora 12 64-bit. To save time, I used the installer's
default partitioning scheme. Normally I custom partition. Anyway, I noticed
an oddity: The
In preparation of a clean install of Wheezy, I did a test install in VirtualBox
3.1.8 running under Fedora 12 64-bit. To save time, I used the installer's
default partitioning scheme. Normally I custom partition. Anyway, I noticed
an oddity: There are gaps between the partitions. Sizable o
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