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Topic: Creating stripe-aligned partitions on RAID array?

Hi all,

I am creating XFS partitions on a large 3ware RAID5 array.  For best performance, the partitions must be created precisely on 64kb (64*1024b) stripe boundaries.

Is there any way to create partitions precisely on 64kb boundaries?  Thanks!

- Chris

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Re: Creating stripe-aligned partitions on RAID array?

I was able to do this from the command line with parted by switching the units to sectors, then keeping the partitions on 128-sector boundaries.  Each sector is 512 bytes, so 128 sectors is a 64k chunk.

It would be nice to be able to change the units in GParted, which would allow this from the GUI as well.

- Chris