In checking some VM's for disk alignment, i was surprised to see VMware's own vMA appliance disk not aligned 😉
~]$ sudo /sbin/fdisk -lu
Disk /dev/sda: 5368 MB, 5368709120 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 652 cylinders, total 10485760 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 63 208844 104391 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 208845 2313359 1052257+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda3 2313360 3357584 522112+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda4 3357585 10474379 3558397+ 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 3357648 10474379 3558366 83 Linux
I know it's not going to matter much, but still.. best practices and all... i dont feel so bad now as i forgot to do it a few weeks ago too.
