From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mx1.redhat.com (ext-mx06.extmail.prod.ext.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.110.10]) by int-mx01.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id o2K7WJcx021877 for ; Sat, 20 Mar 2010 03:32:19 -0400 Received: from maude.comedia.it (mail.comedia.it [77.93.254.181]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id o2K7W7oq012002 for ; Sat, 20 Mar 2010 03:32:07 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by maude.comedia.it (Postfix) with ESMTP id D5D2286F71 for ; Sat, 20 Mar 2010 08:32:05 +0100 (CET) Received: from maude.comedia.it ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (maude.comedia.it [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10025) with LMTP id YmQsdvob2+UA for ; Sat, 20 Mar 2010 08:32:00 +0100 (CET) Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2010 08:32:00 +0100 From: Luca Berra Message-ID: <20100320073200.GA20875@maude.comedia.it> References: <4BA3BEBE.2010204@cfl.rr.com> <4BA3C87C.7020608@cfl.rr.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4BA3C87C.7020608@cfl.rr.com> Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Data alignment Reply-To: LVM general discussion and development List-Id: LVM general discussion and development List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-lvm@redhat.com On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 02:54:52PM -0400, Phillip Susi wrote: >On 3/19/2010 2:36 PM, Eugene Vilensky wrote: >> Align the partition? > >Then I waste 512k on the MBR, and another 512k on the pv header. I'd >like to avoid that if possible and it seems like --dataalignoffset >should let me do that, but it doesn't accept negative numbers. then, just do not create the partition and use lvm on the whole disk :P L. -- Luca Berra -- bluca@comedia.it Communication Media & Services S.r.l. /"\ \ / ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN X AGAINST HTML MAIL / \