<html><head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Exchange Server">  <style></style></head> <body> <style>  </style><body>Oh thx for the reply. I will check the offset with this command. If it is the default offset it would mean that a lvm only disk is aligned by default. Thx for help Greetings Lukas Gesendet über ein mobiles Gerät <div id="htc_header" style="">----- Reply message ----- Von: "Alexander Dalloz" <ad+lists@uni-x.org> An: "LVM general discussion and development" <linux-lvm@redhat.com> Betreff: [linux-lvm] LVM Alignement Datum: Fr., Jul. 22, 2011 20:37 </div> </body> <div class="PlainText">> Hey all, > > i have a question about Lun / Partition alignment. > If I use LVM in a Linux guest OS on a VMFS Datastore i can align my > Partitions with mbralign. > But the tool failes if I will try to use it on a LVM only VDisk. For > example the second Disk of this guest OS. > > Did I need to align the second disk or did LVM take care of alignment ? I > just mean a single VDisk with a single LVM VG. > > Greetings > > Lukas Matecki By default LVM uses an offset of 192k, see: # vgs -o +pe_start VG #PV #LV #SN Attr VSize VFree 1st PE VolGroup00 1 1 0 wz--n- 8,78G 0 192,00K Alexander _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@redhat.com <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm</a> read the LVM HOW-TO at <a href="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/">http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/</a> </div> </body> </html>