Feature changed by: Andreas Jaeger (a_jaeger) Feature #306337, revision 3 Title: Partitioning with non-standard disk geometry - openSUSE-11.2: Unconfirmed + openSUSE-11.2: Evaluation Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Herbert Graeber (hgraeber) Description: For SSDs it is important to respect their erase block size (usually 128KB). So instead of using the standard sectors per track of 63 and 255 heads Theodore Ts'o suggests to use 56 and 224 instead to get a cylinder size which is a multiple of 128KB. Similar tricks may be neccessary to achive optimal cylinder sizes for devices which are used for raid partitions. It would be useful, to have the ability to specify the values for sector per track and heads in the expert before any partition is defined. For special cases, like SSDs it would nice, if proper values will be suggested. Theodore Ts'os Blog: Aligning filesystems to an SSD’s erase block size (http://thunk.org/tytso/blog/2009/02/20/aligning-filesystems-to-an-ssds-erase...) -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306337