--- On Fri, 1/4/13, Bonno Bloksma <b.blok...@tio.nl> wrote:
> From: Bonno Bloksma <b.blok...@tio.nl> > Subject: RE: Wheezy Installer Auto-Partition Oddity > To: "debian-user@lists.debian.org" <debian-user@lists.debian.org> > Date: Friday, January 4, 2013, 3:40 AM > 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 > future. I usually do > >>> that but was being a bit lazy this one > time. ;) > >>> > >>> > >>> 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 of the > >>> gaps is a combination of aligning > partitions based 4096 byte > >>> sectors, regardless of whether they are > that size, and LVM needing > >>> unpartitioned space between partitions > for metadata whether you're > >>> using LVM or not. Mostly, the latter, I > think. > >>> > >>> Like you, for the real install, I'll just > manually partition. Gap, > >>> LVM and GPT "problems" solved. > >>> > >> > >> Just for the record . . . that install was to an > old WD 80gb drive > >> that was around long before the new sector > changes. > > > > Mine, too. WD 160GB purchased late 2006. 512 byte > sectors. > > I don't think the installer looks at the disk type. It will > just use 1M boundaries for starting a new partition. > Why it ends the previous partition just beyond that 1M > boundary and then has to skip 2047 512b sectors I do not > know, that might be a minor bug. > > And ah.... who the heck cares about 1M on a 100+ GB or > nowadays on a 1+ TB disk? ;-) > In the grand scheme of things it might be insignificant but it is very untidy (and annoying) to see those unallocated bits here and there. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1357314946.69740.yahoomailclas...@web163401.mail.gq1.yahoo.com
