Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 27 Dec 2010 11:56:04 +0100 | From | Tejun Heo <> | Subject | Re: Slow disks. |
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On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 11:07:45PM +0100, Niels wrote: > I have several of these drives, in various sizes. They seem to be aligned to > 63 as you mention: > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/sda1 63 208844 104391 83 Linux > /dev/sda2 208845 19759949 9775552+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris > /dev/sda3 19759950 215094284 97667167+ 83 Linux > /dev/sda4 215094285 781417664 283161690 83 Linux > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/sdb1 63 1953520064 976760001 83 Linux > > Is that bad?
Yes.
> What can I do to repair it?
Repartition it.
> What can I do to prevent it from happening again?
Use more recent distros. Most distros released in the past six month have partition utilties which honor partition alignment requirements.
Good luck.
-- tejun
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