Re: bsdinstall misaligns partitions

2013-01-05 Thread Fbsd8
Christian Weisgerber wrote: Shouldn't bsdinstall attempt to align partitions on 4k boundaries both for the benefit of 4k drives and flash storage? I just installed 9.1R i386 for fun and practice, in fact I installed it several times, and I played around with the partitioning options. * The mode

Re: bsdinstall misaligns partitions

2013-01-04 Thread Christian Weisgerber
Warren Block: > > * Funnily enough, the ancient BSD "dangerously dedicated" scheme > > is the only one that out of the box does not misalign partitions. > > The filesystems don't begin at the start of the slice anyway. There is > a bsdlabel there. Yes and no. If you look at the bsdlabel(8) o

Re: bsdinstall misaligns partitions

2013-01-04 Thread Warren Block
On Fri, 4 Jan 2013, Christian Weisgerber wrote: Shouldn't bsdinstall attempt to align partitions on 4k boundaries both for the benefit of 4k drives and flash storage? I think the latest version does. I just installed 9.1R i386 for fun and practice, in fact I installed it several times, and I

Re: bsdinstall misaligns partitions

2013-01-04 Thread Michael Sierchio
On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 9:14 AM, Christian Weisgerber wrote: > Shouldn't bsdinstall attempt to align partitions on 4k boundaries > both for the benefit of 4k drives and flash storage? > > That's rather up to you. AFAIK it attempts to create partitions that preserve "cylinder" boundaries - which ar

bsdinstall misaligns partitions

2013-01-04 Thread Christian Weisgerber
Shouldn't bsdinstall attempt to align partitions on 4k boundaries both for the benefit of 4k drives and flash storage? I just installed 9.1R i386 for fun and practice, in fact I installed it several times, and I played around with the partitioning options. * The modern GPT scheme reserves 34 sect