greetings. 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 other than time involved to backup sdc5, repartition is not a problem. to my thinking, but not recalling, with fsck; fsck -rN -t ext4 /dev/sdc5 * to check repairs fsck -r -t ext4 /dev/sdc5 * to repair gparted was used to partition drive. is pmagic live a better choice, or should i return fdisk because; =+=+= $ sudo fdisk -l /dev/sdc [sudo] password for geo: Disk /dev/sdc: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121601 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes Disk identifier: 0x0009ede7 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdc1 * 1 103 819200 83 Linux Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary. /dev/sdc2 103 230 1024000 82 Linux swap / Solaris Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary. /dev/sdc3 230 2107 15073280 83 Linux /dev/sdc4 2107 121602 959844352 5 Extended /dev/sdc5 2108 42019 320587970+ 83 Linux Partition 5 does not start on physical sector boundary. =+=+= suggestions for correcting above boundaries also appreciated. help needed and greatly appreciated. -- peace out. If Bill Gates got a dime for every time Windows crashes... ...oh, wait. He does. THAT explains it! -+- in a world with out fences, who needs gates. CentOS GNU/Linux 6.7 tc,hago. g .