On 11/9/2016 7:02 PM, Sobel-Sorenson, Chandler - (scar) wrote: > I'm trying to make a new partition but the alignment isn't working. I've > started parted with: parted -a optimal /dev/sda. Then: > > (parted) mkpart > Partition name? []? variables > File system type? [ext2]? ext4 > Start? 0 > End? 4g > Warning: The resulting partition is not properly aligned for best performance. > Ignore/Cancel? > > Am i doing something wrong here?
Yes: you specified a start position of 0 (mb), which means try to start as close to zero as possible. Zero itself is not available, so sector 1 is used, and this is not aligned. Specify a start of 1 instead.
