disk utility reporting misaligned partition which may result in a very poor performance

Bug #908949 reported by ishaan
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I performed a fresh install on my dell vostro laptop 1450. During installation i chose erase entire disk and use ubuntu option. after the installation was complete i opened disk utility which is shows an error message that /dev/sda2 is misaligned by 1024 bytes and this may result in very poor performance repartitioning is suggested. i have performed fresh install repartitioned and also a fresh manual partition. Every time the same error. I am using ubuntu 11.04.

PLease suggest what should i do..

Regards

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ishaan (singhaniaishaan) wrote : Re: [Bug 908949] Re: disk utility reporting misaligned partition which may result in a very poor performance

i tried fedora 16 and there was absolutely no problem with it...
i did a fresh install of fedora and checked with disk utility there was no
misaligned partition there.

regards

On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 2:17 AM, Fabio Marconi <email address hidden>wrote:

> Thank you for taking the time to report this issue and helping to make
> Ubuntu better. Examining the information you have given us, this does
> not appear to be a bug report so we are closing it and converting it to
> a question in the support tracker. We understand the difficulties you
> are facing, but it would make more sense to raise problems you are
> having in the support tracker at https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu if
> you are uncertain if they are bugs. For help on reporting bugs, see
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs.
>
> ** Changed in: ubuntu
> Status: New => Invalid
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> Title:
> disk utility reporting misaligned partition which may result in a very
> poor performance
>
> Status in Ubuntu:
> Invalid
>
> Bug description:
> I performed a fresh install on my dell vostro laptop 1450. During
> installation i chose erase entire disk and use ubuntu option. after
> the installation was complete i opened disk utility which is shows an
> error message that /dev/sda2 is misaligned by 1024 bytes and this may
> result in very poor performance repartitioning is suggested. i have
> performed fresh install repartitioned and also a fresh manual
> partition. Every time the same error. I am using ubuntu 11.04.
>
> PLease suggest what should i do..
>
> Regards
>
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