----- Original Message -----
> From: Chris Davies <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> Cc:
> Sent: Tuesday, January 8, 2013 5:04 AM
> Subject: Re: Wheezy Installer Auto-Partition Oddity
>
> Mark Allums <[email protected]> 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 disks.
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.
B
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