lkml.org 
[lkml]   [2010]   [Dec]   [27]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [wrap][no wrap]   [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
    /
    Date
    From
    SubjectRe: Slow disks.
    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


    \
     
     \ /
      Last update: 2010-12-27 11:59    [W:4.114 / U:0.108 seconds]
    ©2003-2020 Jasper Spaans|hosted at Digital Ocean and TransIP|Read the blog|Advertise on this site