Hi all! Using fdisk from BusyBox v1.19.3, i noted that it: (1) uses cylinders as default units. AFAIK that "heads/cylinders" abstraction has no sense these days, so maybe set default units to sectors or megabytes? (2) when creating partitions, fdisk uses 62 sectors as default alignment of first partition. This value will cause performance problems on both "Advanced Format" (4kB physical sectors) drives and on flash drives (64/128/256kB blocks).
Closest "good" alignment is 64 sectors. Debian Wheezy' fdisk, for example, uses default alignment of 1MiB. Just one of many articles on this subject: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-4kb-sector-disks/index.html Excuse me, if there are some good reason to keep such defaults.. _______________________________________________ busybox mailing list [email protected] http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/busybox
