xerces8 wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Sorry, but parted appears to not support sectors sized other than 512 bytes.
> The FAQ just says, that it will align the partitions to the physical sector
> size.
> But it will still use 512 byte sized sectors.
>
> See this recent email from Jim Meyering (look for the string "512") :
> (here is the relevant part : "you're trying to use a disk with
> sector_size > 512. Converting parted to work with such sector
> sizes is a big job, and will requirea significant widespread changes.")
>
Realistically, a *LOT* of software will not work with a logical sector
size of more than 512. However, with all partititions suitably aligned
(min 4K, and probably more like 64-1024K these days) you should still be
able to get large and hopefully aligned I/O out of the OS.
-hpa
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