Partitioning
Partitioning
Posted Feb 23, 2011 9:50 UTC (Wed) by shane (subscriber, #3335)Parent article: Optimizing Linux with cheap flash drives
The Arch Linux distribution recommends using GPT for partitioning on the wiki:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Solid_State_Drives#P...
Partitioning
Posted Feb 24, 2011 10:20 UTC (Thu)
by arnd (subscriber, #8866)
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Posted Feb 24, 2011 10:20 UTC (Thu) by arnd (subscriber, #8866) [Link]
Yes. Both the gdisk recommended there and the new fdisk mentioned by rh-kzak align partitions to 1 MB, which is much better than what the old fdisk does in many current distros.
However, the alignment should really be 4 MB or higher, not 1 MB, at least on the low-end devices. I hope to get optimizations for 4 MB segments into btrfs, ext4 and other file systems, but they can only work if the file system is fully aligned.