On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 07:34:48AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Monday 26 October 2015 05:55:10 Martin Str|mberg wrote: > > > In article <[email protected]> Gene Heskett > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Monday 26 October 2015 02:29:04 Martin Str|mberg wrote: > > > > I don't understand why you can't. I can create (and did) > > > > partitions of 200 MB size. I use the text based installer and > > > > manual partitioning. > > > > > > On a 4k/sector, 2 terabyte disk? I tried from 500m to 2g, it would > > > not accept it. Finally I said to use 5% of the disk, and that > > > worked. Since > > > > Mmm... Lately, usually the installation is onto an SDD, so lately no. > > > > But earlier I'm quite sure I've done that. That should be around/with > > Debian 6 and then probably not 4k/sector disk. > > I am too, now. And with that one caveat re the new big disks, debian's > installer has Just Worked(TM)
Are you sure its not a 4k/sector internal but with a 512MB interface? I know there was some discussion on the NetBSD list. I think your gripe was about performance, if I remember correctly --- not that you couldn't actually partition it. Ignore this post if I'm barking up the wrong tree. :) -- "If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." --- Malcolm X
