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Modify partition creation command to align partitions to 1M boundaries.

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Suggested by forum user tankist02.
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Warren Block 2016-01-04 22:04:12 +00:00
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<para>The partition scheme is created, and then a single partition
is added:</para>
is added. To improve performance on newer disks with larger
hardware block sizes, the partition is aligned to one megabyte
boundaries:</para>
<screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>gpart create -s GPT ada1</userinput>
&prompt.root; <userinput>gpart add -t freebsd-ufs ada1</userinput></screen>
&prompt.root; <userinput>gpart add -t freebsd-ufs -a 1M ada1</userinput></screen>
<para>Depending on use, several smaller partitions may be desired.
See &man.gpart.8; for options to create partitions smaller than