[clue] Whack-a-disk

Dan Kulinski daniel at kulinski.net
Thu Jul 31 09:01:13 MDT 2014


I believe for the 4K sectors it is very important.  The WD EAS drives
showed that improperly aligned partitions gave horrible performance.  Here
is a superuser.com article on it that explains the issue:

http://superuser.com/questions/393914/what-is-partition-alignment-and-why-whould-i-need-it


On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 8:24 AM, Bruce Ediger <bediger at stratigery.com>
wrote:

> On Tue, 29 Jul 2014, David L. Willson wrote:
>
> > # Create a new, cylinder-aligned, primary partition, the full size of
> the disk
> > sudo parted --align cylinder /dev/sdc mkpart primary 0% 100%
>
> Is cylinder-aligned important for performance any more? I was under
> the impression that LBA meant that heads/cylinders/platters might
> even be faked information, given out by the disk software to fool
> any old stuff that might ask for it.
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