Partition does not start on physical sector boundary.

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Hi, I did a fresh installation of Proxmox and I created a FreeBSD Virtual machine. If I execute fdisk -l it shows me a warning.
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What I'm doing wrong ? How can I fix this?
 
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The thread was created in the Mail Gateway forum - I moved it to the more appropriate PVE subforum.

Regarding your question - if you install FreeBSD inside the guest - it depends on how FreeBSD partitions the disk - so I assume that FreeBSD simply did not do the alignment (and would not be too scared about that in general).

In any case it's nothing that can be "fixed/repaired" from the PVE side

I hope this helps!
 
You didn't mention what the backing storage is, I'm assuming SSD. Keep an eye on the wearout indicator in the GUI and SMART table, you /might/ be getting excessive write amplification.

However, I get the same error when I do that on the host, so jury is still out on if it's actually problematic. My nvme wearout on 2x SSD is at 1% and 0% and the node has been running mostly 24/7 since Feb.

https://askubuntu.com/questions/156...not-start-on-physical-sector-boundary-warning

https://www.baeldung.com/linux/partition-physical-sector-boundary-warning
 
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