TITLE SHOULDA BEEN: Comparing Mint 12 with Oneiric 11.10 when trying to completely dump Unity.

[Eric Shubert]

That's interesting, as I settled on 32x32 as well. It seems to fit all 
the possibilities (4k sectors, etc).
Great minds think alike. ;)

Yeah, the installers aren't up to snuff with alignment or GPT yet from 
what I've seen.

Thanks.

-- 
-Eric 'shubes'

On 02/11/2012 11:56 AM, Michael Butash wrote:
> I do 32/32 for mine. Aligning md/luks/lvm to that is the real trick.
>
> SSD's ended up a royal pain to deal with with the alignment, and
> continue to do so from what I can tell. I still don't think the default
> install deals with them properly, but then again, I'm not positive. GPT
> takes care of it, but ubuntu doesn't seem keen to use it.
>
> -mb
>
>
>
> On 02/11/2012 08:26 AM, Eric Shubert wrote:
>> On 02/11/2012 01:08 AM, Michael Butash wrote:
>>> I use about the oddest desktop config and hardware you can find, ssd,
>>> encryption, raid, multi monitor, other things developers forget about or
>>> take for granted.
>>
>> Just curious, what sort of partition alignment (cyl,trk) did you use?
>>