Disk partition alignment for SQL Server 2008
DISKPART> list disk
Disk ### Status Size Free Dyn Gpt
——– ————- ——- ——- — —
Disk 0 Online 136 GB 0 B
Disk 1 Online 600 GB 600 GB
Disk 2 Reserved 200 GB 1024 KB
Disk 3 Reserved 100 GB 1024 KB
Disk 4 Reserved 50 GB 1024 KB
Disk 5 Reserved 600 GB 1024 KB
Disk 6 Reserved 340 GB 1024 KB
Disk 7 Reserved 150 GB 1024 KB
Disk 8 Offline 100 GB 1024 KB
Disk 9 Offline 50 GB 1024 KB
Disk 10 Reserved 3000 GB 0 B *
DISKPART> select disk 1
Disk 1 is now the selecteddisk.
DISKPART> create partition primary align=1024
DiskPart succeededin creating the specified partition.
DISKPART> assign letter=E
DiskPart successfullyassigned the drive letter or mountpoint.
DISKPART> format fs=ntfs unit=64K label=”db_disk” nowait
Run ‘fsutil fsinfo ntfsinfo’ for drive to see the file allocation unit size.
The Bytes Per Cluster value, which contains the file allocation unit size is highlighted in red.
C:>fsutil fsinfo ntfsinfo E:
NTFS Volume Serial Number : 0x14d20835d2081e1c
Version : 3.1
Number Sectors : 0x000000004affe7ff
Total Clusters : 0x000000000095ffcf
Free Clusters : 0x00000000001dfe72
Total Reserved : 0x0000000000005998
Bytes Per Sector : 512
Bytes Per Cluster : 65536
Bytes Per FileRecordSegment : 1024
Clusters Per FileRecordSegment : 0
Mft Valid Data Length : 0x0000000000180000
Mft Start Lcn : 0x000000000000c000
Mft2 Start Lcn : 0x0000000000000001
Mft Zone Start : 0x000000000000c000
Mft Zone End : 0x000000000000cca0
RM Identifier: 5082C02D-609E-11E3-A803-901B0E0D3627
NTFS Volume Serial Number : 0x14d20835d2081e1c
Version : 3.1
Number Sectors : 0x000000004affe7ff
Total Clusters : 0x000000000095ffcf
Free Clusters : 0x00000000001dfe72
Total Reserved : 0x0000000000005998
Bytes Per Sector : 512
Bytes Per Cluster : 65536
Bytes Per FileRecordSegment : 1024
Clusters Per FileRecordSegment : 0
Mft Valid Data Length : 0x0000000000180000
Mft Start Lcn : 0x000000000000c000
Mft2 Start Lcn : 0x0000000000000001
Mft Zone Start : 0x000000000000c000
Mft Zone End : 0x000000000000cca0
RM Identifier: 5082C02D-609E-11E3-A803-901B0E0D3627