Thread: help with harddisk alignment

he when im trying install ubuntu 10.04 64bit on laptop comes error , being linux newbie im not sure on what says

partition /dev/sda1 assigned / starts @ offset of 3072 bytes minimum alignment disk, may lead poor performance


since formatting partition, should correct problem realigning partition, difficult change later. this, go main partitioning menu, delete partition, , recreate in same position same settings. cause partition start @ point best suited disk


yeah thats says im not sure on how fix thank

see this article wrote ibm developerworks information on issues involved. article focuses on western digital "advanced format" , similar drives, there similar issues raid arrays, noted in "aligning raid partitions" sidebar.

don't know offhand sort of checks ubuntu 10.04 installer does, , haven't said type of hard disk you've got, don't know whether warning reasonable or false alarm. won't hurt re-create partition warning suggests, though. know 10.04 installer aligns partitions on 1mb (2048-sector) boundaries default, in order optimize performance on wide variety of modern hardware possible.

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