All, Please vote for: https://features.opensuse.org/306443 in order to have opensuse 11.3 optimise partition layouts to the underlying hardware. background: The kernel and parted have been improved in the last year to allow optimum alignment of partitions with this new class of drives as well as with mdraid etc. I believe it will take a change to the opensuse installer to leverage these changes. ie. parted now needs to be called with a new command line arg. I've looked in openfate and #306443 is not exactly the same request, but it is so close it does not make sense to create a separate request in my mind. Thanks Greg -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org