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-rw-r--r--daemon/parted.c11
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/daemon/parted.c b/daemon/parted.c
index dbcae032..0d229484 100644
--- a/daemon/parted.c
+++ b/daemon/parted.c
@@ -184,15 +184,16 @@ do_part_disk (const char *device, const char *parttype)
return -1;
}
- /* Align all partitions created this way to 64 sectors, and leave
- * the last 64 sectors at the end of the disk free. This wastes
- * 32K+32K = 64K on 512-byte sector disks. The rationale is:
+ /* Align all partitions created this way to 128 sectors, and leave
+ * the last 128 sectors at the end of the disk free. This wastes
+ * 64K+64K = 128K on 512-byte sector disks. The rationale is:
*
* - aligned operations are faster
+ * - absolute minimum recommended alignment is 64K (1M would be better)
* - GPT requires at least 34 sectors at the end of the disk.
*/
- const char *startstr = "64s";
- const char *endstr = "-64s";
+ const char *startstr = "128s";
+ const char *endstr = "-128s";
RUN_PARTED (return -1,
device,