On Jul 7, 2014, at 2:05 PM, Bob Proulx <b...@proulx.com> wrote: >> Using today's Debian you do not normally need to bother with alignment >> as all partitions will be automatically aligned at 1 MiB boundaries by >> most of the tools anyway. > > Agreed. No need to worry about it with a default Wheezy or later > installation. All handled automatically.
This is true for i386 and amd64, but for (at least) powerpc (I don’t know about mips, arm* etc) the megabyte boundary alignment fixes haven’t found it into the installer’s partition modules yet. For PowerPC. you *do* have to be careful and partition manually if you are using SSD or “advanced format” hard disks. Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/5813b712-5e4e-4dc7-8f03-a5aa93a66...@pobox.com
