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diff --git a/doPartitionDisks.html b/doPartitionDisks.html index fdb9112..f4b6907 100644 --- a/doPartitionDisks.html +++ b/doPartitionDisks.html @@ -28,13 +28,19 @@ - + + + + + + + @@ -170,21 +176,27 @@ </tr> <tr> <td align="left" valign="top"> - - <p>If you have a SSD (Solid State Drive) instead of a hard disk, at - the time this help was written, it was inadvisable to create the - partitions with this tool because they would not be aligned. The SSD - would work but with reduced speed and lifetime. Use a partitioning tool - such as Gparted instead with these partition alignment settings for each - partition : + + <p>Some newer drives are now using 4096 byte logical sectors, instead + of the previous standard of 512 byte logical sectors. Due to lack of + available hardware, the partitioning tool used in the installer has not + been tested with such a drive. Also some ssd drives now use an erase block + size over 1 MB. We suggest to pre-partition the drive, using an + alternative partitioning tool like gparted, if you own such a device, and + to use the following settings: </p> - - <p>Free space preceding (MiB) : 2</p> + + <p>"Align to" "MiB" </p> + + + <p>"Free space preceding (MiB)" "2" </p> - - <p>Round to cylinders : unchecked</p> + <p>Also make sure all partitions are created with an even number of + megabytes. + </p> + </td> </tr> </table> |