On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 01:54:37PM -0700, Cris Perdue wrote: > In partition tables, GPT entries specifically, there are 8 byte fields for > the first and last LBA of the partition. Traditionally logical blocks are > 512 bytes, but some new disks report sector sizes of up to 4096 bytes as > both logical and physical sector size. For these so-called 4kn disks, > should the partition table entries be interpreted as representing units of > 4096 bytes, or does the magic number 512 still apply to their partition > table entries?
LBA always refers to the drive's block size. So it may be 512 or 4096 or some other value, depending on what the drive reports. -- Brian C. Lane | Port Orchard, WA (PST8PDT)
