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How Important is Partition Alignment ???
As if my poor numb skull didn't have enough stuff floating around in it, I discovered that there was such a thing as partition alignment.
I Google-searched it and everything I came up with was way over my head and seemed to be more oriented toward Windows 2003 and 2008 "servers", and I don't know what a server is.
I did find a formula for determining if one's partitions were aligned and did the math, dividing some number by 4096 to see if it came out even; it did not, having a remainder of 1024.
My understanding is that discs are comprised of 512-sized blocks and and one wants the stuff stacked atop these blocks to align at every fourth joint.
Is partition alignment something I need to worry about ?
Thanks.