[arch-general] Re: How to align partitions?

The 03/09/12, Paul Gideon Dann wrote:

I like to start my first partition at 1048576, which is 1Mb into the disk, and end it at 104857599, which makes it 99Mb long. After that, I use a single partition spanning the rest of the disk, starting at 104857600 (100Mb), and ending at a multiple of (1024*1024=1048576). I use LMV or RAID+LVM on top of that.

LVM needs dedicated configuration, too. AFAIK, some RAID can't be aligned at all due to metadata. A good article is from Theodore Ts'o: http://tytso.livejournal.com/2009/02/20/ -- Nicolas Sebrecht