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On Mar 5, 2012 3:15 AM, "Grant" <emailgrant@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> >> HOWEVER, make sure that all partitions begin at multiples of 8 (e.g., |
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64, |
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> >> 72, 80, and so on); this will save you a lot of grief if it happens |
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that the |
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> >> hard disk you're using has 4KiB-sectors. [1] |
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> > <snip the rest> |
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> > From what I recall of looking at that toy's specs, it's running on an |
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> > SSD, so it becomes even more important, performance-wise, to have |
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> > things aligned properly so any one write doesn't cause two full erase |
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> > blocks to be cycled. The 1MB alignment is, if I recall, a balance |
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> > Microsoft struck as the midpoint between multiple hardware vendors to |
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> > work well on any of them... raid arrays, SSDs, advanced format hard |
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> > drives with 4k sectors on-disk, etc. |
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> Just to confirm, starting at block 2048 is OK? |
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No problem. You'll just be shortchanged of almost 1MiB. Nothing to lose |
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sleep over, IMO. |
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The most important thing is to make sure that *all* partitions begin on |
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sectors divisible by 8. So, if you're going to set up multiple partitions, |
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eyeball their start sectors carefully. |
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Rgds, |
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