The truth is, I realized this too late, and now I would also need to, maybe not reinstall, but at least reformat. So I have no idea what sort of impact this has

The truth is, I realized this too late, and now I would also need to, maybe not reinstall, but at least reformat. So I have no idea what sort of impact this has, but clearly, this is not huge. What supposedly really kills performance is if your filesystem's blocks are unaligned with the real physical sector size (4k), but most FS correctly handles this: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Advanced_Format#File_systems https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Advanced_Format#File_system...