[ale] HELP - Partition Misaligned message after cloning disk

[JD]

I think you might have been better off using parted or gparted to clone the
disks.  Those tools, on current distros, **know** how to align on 4K sector HDDs.

Your Windows performance will probably suffer too until you correct this issue.

Just backup the data to that backup drive, repartition and restore.  I'm certain
you have great backups. ;)



On 12/31/2012 05:15 PM, Ron Frazier (ALE) wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> HELP.  I cloned my 500 GB hdd which was threatening failure for my laptop to a
> new 750 GB hdd using Acronis True Image.  I told it to leave the partition sizes
> unchanged, so the extra space at the end of the drive is unallocated.
> 
> I can now boot both Windows 7 and Ubuntu and they work fine.  However, Disk
> Utility in Ubuntu is giving an error message on each partition that says:
> 
> WARNING: The partition is misaligned by xxxx bytes.  This may result in very
> poor performance.  Repartitioning is suggested.
> 
> The number xxxx varies by partition, and all partitions are showing the problem,
> except for the unallocated space.  The following screen shots show each error.
> 
> https://dl.dropbox.com/u/9879631/123112-Screenshot-01.png
> https://dl.dropbox.com/u/9879631/123112-Screenshot-02.png
> https://dl.dropbox.com/u/9879631/123112-Screenshot-03.png
> https://dl.dropbox.com/u/9879631/123112-Screenshot-04.png
> 
> Windows 7 seems to run fine and is apparently not bothered, although there may
> be hidden effects I cannot see.  What are the implications of this?  How do I
> fix it?  Note that I don't want to erase any data in any of the partitions.  The
> disk is formatted as MBR.
> 
> The following scree