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Subject: Re: bsdinstall misaligns partitions
From: Michael Sierchio <kudzu@tenebras.com>
To: Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de>
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On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 9:14 AM, Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de>wrote:

> Shouldn't bsdinstall attempt to align partitions on 4k boundaries
> both for the benefit of 4k drives and flash storage?
>
>
That's rather up to you.  AFAIK it attempts to create partitions that
preserve "cylinder" boundaries - which are generally a rather obsolete
concept, even for drives with spindles.