[Fai-commit] r6520 - trunk/man

[Michael Tautschnig]

Author: mt
Date: 2011-05-01 23:36:03 +0000 (Sun, 01 May 2011)
New Revision: 6520

Modified:
   trunk/man/setup-storage.8
Log:
setup-storage.8: Document alignment strategy of setup-storage.


Modified: trunk/man/setup-storage.8
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--- trunk/man/setup-storage.8	2011-05-01 23:35:17 UTC (rev 6519)
+++ trunk/man/setup-storage.8	2011-05-01 23:36:03 UTC (rev 6520)
@@ -695,6 +695,12 @@
 will want to copy these to some removable media. To make encrypted root devices
 actually usable, you need to add busybox (and initramfs-tools) to your package
 config.
+.IP \(bu
+For backwards compatibility or other system-specific reasons an alignment to
+cylinder boundaries may be necessary. Yet other systems will have other
+alignment constraints. setup-storage sets the alignment as follows: If align-at
+is set, align accordingly. Otherwise, if any partition on the particular disk is
+to be preserved, default to cylinder alignment. Else use sector alignment.
 .SH SEE ALSO
 This program is part of FAI (Fully Automatic Installation).
 The FAI homepage is http://fai-project.org.