On Tue, Nov 04, 2014 at 08:26:24PM +0530, dE wrote: > On 11/04/14 03:24, Brian C. Lane wrote:
> >Assuming you are talking about linux -- parted uses the logical sector > >size returned by the kernel, which gets it from the drive. We don't set > >to 512 arbitrarily. So if there is an actual problem it should be > >reported against the kernel. > > > > Yes, the kernel reports both -- the logical and the physical. Parted knows > about it, it shows both the logical and physical sector size, but then also > it uses the logical sector size. It should not. There must be an option at > least, and I suggest it should be made the default otherwise the partitions > may start unaligned. Can you cite specific instances of problems using the logical size? Every tool that I am aware of uses it. As for not aligning parted defaults to 1MiB so unless you are forcing it to a specific sector you aren't going to see an issue. -- Brian C. Lane | Anaconda Team | IRC: bcl #anaconda | Port Orchard, WA (PST8PDT)
