On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 11:05 AM, Richard Shaw <hobbes1069(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Well I guess the lack of responses means that without taking
extraordinary
steps, I'm pretty much screwed.
Thanks for the idea though Tom. I'm not sure if it's worth going to that
much trouble though, at least for now.
Having the partition aligned to the erasure blocks probably gives the most
benefit anyway.
It's unlikely to matter. Any erase block that gets sufficiently stale
because there's a partition boundary right through it will eventually
just be migrated to a new block elsewhere, for wear leveling purposes.
If you really want to you can partition everything in advance (fdisk,
gdisk, gparted, blivet-gui) and then tell the installer which
partitions to re-use by reformatting them, which does retain the
partitions as you've created them.
Almost always, mkfs defaults should work best. If they don't, then
that needs to be looked at.
--
Chris Murphy