From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
To: Niels <zorglub_olsen@hotmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Slow disks.
Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2010 11:56:04 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101227105604.GF11419@htj.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <if8ebj$nf8$1@dough.gmane.org>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-12-27 10:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-12-20 14:15 Rogier Wolff
2010-12-20 18:06 ` Bruno Prémont
2010-12-20 18:32 ` Greg Freemyer
2010-12-22 10:43 ` Rogier Wolff
2010-12-22 15:59 ` Greg Freemyer
2010-12-22 16:27 ` Jeff Moyer
2010-12-22 22:44 ` Rogier Wolff
2010-12-23 14:40 ` Jeff Moyer
2010-12-23 17:01 ` Rogier Wolff
2010-12-23 17:47 ` Jeff Moyer
2010-12-23 18:51 ` Greg Freemyer
2010-12-23 19:10 ` Jaap Crezee
2010-12-23 22:09 ` Greg Freemyer
2010-12-24 11:40 ` Rogier Wolff
2010-12-26 23:05 ` Greg Freemyer
2010-12-27 0:27 ` Rogier Wolff
2010-12-24 10:45 ` Rogier Wolff
2010-12-23 17:05 ` Jaap Crezee
2010-12-26 23:38 ` Mark Knecht
2010-12-27 0:34 ` Rogier Wolff
2010-12-27 3:12 ` Mark Knecht
2010-12-27 18:20 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2010-12-24 13:01 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2010-12-24 15:24 ` Michael Tokarev
2010-12-24 20:58 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2010-12-25 12:14 ` Rogier Wolff
2010-12-25 12:19 ` Mikael Abrahamsson
2010-12-25 18:12 ` Jaap Crezee
2010-12-25 21:28 ` Michael Tokarev
2010-12-26 21:40 ` Rogier Wolff
2010-12-26 23:17 ` Greg Freemyer
2010-12-26 23:49 ` Rogier Wolff
2010-12-26 22:07 ` Niels
2010-12-27 10:56 ` Tejun Heo [this message]
2010-12-20 19:09 ` Jeff Moyer
2010-12-22 20:52 ` David Rees
2010-12-22 22:46 ` Rogier Wolff
2010-12-22 23:13 ` David Rees
[not found] <fa.C+PyZdFdHUxRFDJDF3KlrfaJASk@ifi.uio.no>
2010-12-21 12:29 ` Arto Jantunen
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