From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1S4Hos-0007fY-3l for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 04 Mar 2012 20:14:14 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E92FFE098F; Sun, 4 Mar 2012 20:14:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ey0-f181.google.com (mail-ey0-f181.google.com [209.85.215.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B881CE0946 for ; Sun, 4 Mar 2012 20:13:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: by eaa1 with SMTP id 1so1232168eaa.40 for ; Sun, 04 Mar 2012 12:13:00 -0800 (PST) Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of emailgrant@gmail.com designates 10.14.121.82 as permitted sender) client-ip=10.14.121.82; Authentication-Results: mr.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: domain of emailgrant@gmail.com designates 10.14.121.82 as permitted sender) smtp.mail=emailgrant@gmail.com; dkim=pass header.i=emailgrant@gmail.com Received: from mr.google.com ([10.14.121.82]) by 10.14.121.82 with SMTP id q58mr9656348eeh.119.1330891980012 (num_hops = 1); Sun, 04 Mar 2012 12:13:00 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=HDOA5HajQSiZvW1AcdntbgLOxNiMgQyDvn65lgAz0SE=; b=H29Wyp5Xr+Os2tG0hf2aP0JkxVnmMAlR4wAJEX3fiNNhaDDRDeEyf6b/2pdnRwT63A A7GMDgR/det0hby2pa+3TwkibNPNDz7JH0IVqrJFxbmF4Y1Imhfxs8EKKXJ/+yZdj+LM eorajPk1SA7ZXq/SeXYnMPGpjpPn3nDUrx0p/3OWMlxFLwFiIy6Gs9XEOMK6TRtx+m27 HUSEBXoJwURX1P6xUzSwgqtnN4tj+zKBjVL3ggWuPDJwETehG7TFKOG+iSumiu9QWynD a1+bjaLMcKFfPkhbmI7PKfwf9TGbsrnNCp4wNX3d5VF30tm+tCieaHmDB1mx4TSjcROV /GwQ== Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.14.121.82 with SMTP id q58mr7350205eeh.119.1330891979935; Sun, 04 Mar 2012 12:12:59 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.213.113.148 with HTTP; Sun, 4 Mar 2012 12:12:59 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2012 12:12:59 -0800 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo on a Dell XPS 13 Ultrabook From: Grant To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Archives-Salt: 43604dbe-39be-4763-84d3-4a1765c76249 X-Archives-Hash: 9d1e3493c574cbe871eeaf9a30f617a1 [snip] >> 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] > > > > 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