Re: [CentOS] centos6.2, parted and alignment

John R Pierce wrote:

I have a large raid (lsi megaraid sas2 9261-8i card) and when I use parted to initialize it as the one big partition I want, it gives me a warning.

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 # parted -a optimal /dev/sda "mkpart primary 128s -1s"
 Warning: You requested a partition from 65.5kB to 81.0TB.
 The closest location we can manage is 65.5kB to 81.0TB.
 Is this still acceptable to you?
 Yes/No? yes
 Warning: The resulting partition is not properly aligned for best

performance. Ignore/Cancel? i Information: You may need to update /etc/fstab.

<snip> If *anyone* has the answer to this, I want to know. Or maybe we should just file a bug against parted, which ABSOLUTELY, POSITIVELY does *not* want to a) align it for best performance, or b) *TELL* you what you need to align it.

Using gparted (GUIs, why did it have to be GUIs), you at least don't get that idiot warning.

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