Bug#614632: Disk partitions not created along cylinder boundaries

2011-02-23 Thread Jaap Winius
Quoting Colin Watson : This is entirely intentional. No remotely modern disk requires partitions to be aligned on cylinder boundaries, and cylinder alignment is very bad indeed for performance on many modern disks ... That's good to hear! I was concerned, because fdisk does not show this "n

Can an LVM /boot partition be created with preseeding?

2012-08-27 Thread Jaap Winius
Hi folks, The typical Debian squeeze workstations that I configure only have LVM partitions, including one for /boot. I figured out how to create a preseeded netinstall image that does everything I want except create an LVM partition for /boot. It seems all I can do is use "d-i partman-au