Re: [gentoo-user] Is wrong 4k sector alignment still an issue?
On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 4:13 PM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@gmail.com wrote: I'm getting a 2TB drive which uses 4kB sectors instead of 512 byte ones. I suppose by now everything will just work and the various tools will now by default create correctly aligned partitions? Most of them should. Latest fdisk and gdisk should align to 1MB and latest parted etc. should as well.
Re: [gentoo-user] Is wrong 4k sector alignment still an issue?
On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 2:13 PM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@gmail.com wrote: I'm getting a 2TB drive which uses 4kB sectors instead of 512 byte ones. I suppose by now everything will just work and the various tools will now by default create correctly aligned partitions? I guess it depends on what tools you use to create partitions but I believe the stable version of fdisk does now align to 4k by default. Just make sure the starting address is divisible by 8 and you should be good to go no matter what tools you use. HTH, Mark
Re: [gentoo-user] Is wrong 4k sector alignment still an issue?
On Tue, 26 Jun 2012 16:23:49 -0500, Paul Hartman wrote: I'm getting a 2TB drive which uses 4kB sectors instead of 512 byte ones. I suppose by now everything will just work and the various tools will now by default create correctly aligned partitions? Most of them should. Latest fdisk and gdisk should align to 1MB and latest parted etc. should as well. I researched this for the latest issue of LXF and the only one that still uses 512K blocks is cfdisk (cgdisk is fine). -- Neil Bothwick Top Oxymorons Number 48: freewill offering signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Is wrong 4k sector alignment still an issue?
LXF? On Jun 26, 2012 5:53 PM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Tue, 26 Jun 2012 16:23:49 -0500, Paul Hartman wrote: I'm getting a 2TB drive which uses 4kB sectors instead of 512 byte ones. I suppose by now everything will just work and the various tools will now by default create correctly aligned partitions? Most of them should. Latest fdisk and gdisk should align to 1MB and latest parted etc. should as well. I researched this for the latest issue of LXF and the only one that still uses 512K blocks is cfdisk (cgdisk is fine). -- Neil Bothwick Top Oxymorons Number 48: freewill offering
Re: [gentoo-user] Is wrong 4k sector alignment still an issue?
On Tuesday 26 June 2012 22:54:32 Michael Mol wrote: LXF? Linux Format, the best monthly journal for all things Linux in the world. Bar none. (For some reason they've unsubscribed me and ignored my e-mail saying I'd not unsubscribed. I must get round to starting a new subscription.) -- Rgds Peter
