Leon Fauster wrote: > Am 22.04.2016 um 12:40 schrieb g <geleem at bellsouth.net>: >> centos 6.7 [current] >> 'disk utility' has started showing message; >> >> WARNING: The partition is misaligned by 2560 bytes. This may >> result in very poor performance. Repartitioning is suggested. >> for sdc5 - /home partition. >> >> /dev/sdc5 302243312 156348604 130534968 55% /home >> /dev/sdc7 80854912 57088 76683952 1% /hdd/c/07 <snip> >> gparted was used to partition drive. is pmagic live a better choice, >> or should i return fdisk because; <snip> 1. fsck won't do anything at the lower level of partitioning. 2. A few years ago I personally tested this, and yes, an aligned partition *does* make a significant difference in access time. 3. I've only used gparted once or twice. In user-surly parted, you want to run it as $ parted -a opt /dev/sdc then, when mkpart, be sure to use start and end as something like x.0GB, +x.0GB, and parted will do the alignment correctly. (As opposed to only telling you that the alignment is not optimal, rather than *telling* you what you should be doing to make it optimal.) mark