Disk utilities

Partition alignment

Unaligned partitions and disk sectors will result in two disk writes for an OS write. That will dramatically reduce disk io throughput. To avoid that you can use parted to create and align partitions.

First we should get the optimal sector where to start and aligned partition with disk sectors.

initial sector=(optimal_io_size+alignment_offset)/physical_block_size

And to get the parameters for sdd disk:

cat /sys/block/sdd/queue/optimal_io_size

cat /sys/block/sdd/alignment_offset

cat /sys/block/sdd/queue/physical_block_size