On Wed, 29 May 2013, Lev Serebryakov wrote:
Hello, Freebsd-geom.
I'm trying to format external Extended Format drive to FAT32 under
FreeBSD 9.1-STABLE
I've created MBR scheme, but when I try to create primary partition
I get:
sudo gpart add -t fat32 -a 4k da0
da0s1 added, but partition is not aligned on 4096 bytes
Why?
According to "Using Advanced disks for old OSes like WinCP" guides it
is possible to 4K-align MBR partition, but all these guides are
windows-centric...
The MBR standard specifies alignment to cylinders. gpart complies with
that. It's like -a always goes to 63. Other operating systems are not
as strict, which at this point makes it easier for their users.
As far as I know, the only way to align MBR partitions on FreeBSD is by
entering manual values to fdisk(8).
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