On Mon, 17 Oct 2016 20:20:55 +0100, John Rumm
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What would be a good (valid) way of checking for such things
(increased performance hopefully) pre and post adjustment?

On windows, do a msinfo32 in a command prompt to start the system
information tool. Then expand out the Components - Storage - Disks
part of the tree view. That will show all the physical drives, and the
partitions and their starting offsets. Divide the offset by 4096 and
hope you get an integer answer ;-)

e.g:

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Partition Starting Offset 1,048,576 bytes

So, on my best laptop (Tosh A300) with a 240G SSD it looks like my
starting offsets are all out (W10 System, Data, Mint root, Mint Home,
Mint swap).

So, how could I test the performance pre and post re-alignment please,
so we can see just how much difference it *really* makes (if any)?

Cheers, T i m