On Mon, 2012-11-26 at 02:22 +0100, Lucas B. Cohen wrote: > Hi Warren, > > On 2012.11.25 21:49, Warren Block wrote: > > For a hard drive, 4K alignment and starting the main partition at 1M is > > good. > Why would one leave 1024 full kbits before the first partition on a HDD ?
"Create a partition for /. It should start at the 1M boundary for proper sector alignment on 4K sector drives or SSDs. This is compatible with GPT drive layout for many other systems. Give it a GPT label of gprootfs." - http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/disksetup.html It doesn't explain it for me, but at least it might be an explanation for somebody with more knowledge? _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
