On Wed, 19 Oct 2016 11:08:59 +0100, pamela wrote:

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This web page from 2011 mentions a glitch with Gparted's boundary
alignment. I don't use it for my partition work, so I don't know
if or when it was fixed.

I wonder if it's describing the same sort of problem you may be
hitting.

http://lifehacker.com/5837769/make-s...artitions-are-
correctly-aligned-for-optimal-solid-state-drive-performance

I'm not sure what 'problem' you think I'm hitting as such ... I was
just trying to pin down if this whole boundary alignment thing was
fact or fiction .... 'today'?

So, in the absence of any proof that any utility is actually able to
report what might be really going on at the electronics / paging
level, the only thing left would be to run some before and after tests
and see what sort of improvements are seen (if any)?

To do that I would first need a suitable utility that was *known* to
really test for such things and not just report what it thinks it
might be seeing (because of some form of caching or hardware access
limitations).

Cheers, T i m