Re: satisfying the align-checking in parted?

2017-09-26 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 27 September 2017 00:30:38 Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > On 2017-09-26, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Looks like I need a disk guru! > > > > I have a new 1 TB disk I just bought, one of Seagates little skinny > > backup things. > > Wouldn't this be more appropriate for

Re: satisfying the align-checking in parted?

2017-09-26 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On 2017-09-26, Alan Corey wrote: > gparted makes it a lot easier. If you want to be sure of the sector > size look for an st... number then go to seagate.com and get a > datasheet. The debian-arm list is primarily intended to be discussions about ARM related systems, and not so much about disks

Re: satisfying the align-checking in parted?

2017-09-26 Thread Alan Corey
gparted makes it a lot easier. If you want to be sure of the sector size look for an st... number then go to seagate.com and get a datasheet. 2048 seems small for a 1 TB drive, my 128 GB SD card uses 4096. Actually I'm not sure, this is a 1 TB Seagate and disklabel says: type: ESDI disk:

Re: satisfying the align-checking in parted?

2017-09-26 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On 2017-09-26, Gene Heskett wrote: > Looks like I need a disk guru! > > I have a new 1 TB disk I just bought, one of Seagates little skinny backup > things. Wouldn't this be more appropriate for debian-u...@lists.debian.org? live well, vagrant signature.asc

satisfying the align-checking in parted?

2017-09-26 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings; Looks like I need a disk guru! I have a new 1 TB disk I just bought, one of Seagates little skinny backup things. Parted seems to be having a cow, as I deleted the default full disk ntfs partition easy enough, and now cannot create any new ones that are aligned. Consulting dmesg,