Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo on a Dell XPS 13 Ultrabook

[Grant <emailgrant@gmail.com>]

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>> HOWEVER, make sure that all partitions begin at multiples of 8 (e.g., 64,
>> 72, 80, and so on); this will save you a lot of grief if it happens that the
>> hard disk you're using has 4KiB-sectors. [1]
>
> <snip the rest>
>
> From what I recall of looking at that toy's specs, it's running on an
> SSD, so it becomes even more important, performance-wise, to have
> things aligned properly so any one write doesn't cause two full erase
> blocks to be cycled. The 1MB alignment is, if I recall, a balance
> Microsoft struck as the midpoint between multiple hardware vendors to
> work well on any of them... raid arrays, SSDs, advanced format hard
> drives with 4k sectors on-disk, etc.

Just to confirm, starting at block 2048 is OK?

- Grant