[ale] HELP - Partition Misaligned message after cloning disk

[Ron Frazier (ALE)]

Hi James,

Thanks for that link.  I looked it over and did some more research.  
I'll be sharing that in a thread with a different subject.

Sincerely,

Ron

On 12/31/2012 5:36 PM, James Sumners wrote:
> http://jrfom.com/2010/05/03/4kb-sectors/
>
> On Monday, December 31, 2012, 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 screen shot shows the structure of the drive in Disk
>     Manager in Windows.  The 97 GB partition is the Linux partition
>     and it is EXT4.
>
>     https://dl.dropbox.com/u/9879631/123112-Screenshot-05.png
>
>     Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
>     Sincerely,
>
>     Ron
>
>
>
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