[gentoo-user] Is wrong 4k sector alignment still an issue?

2012-06-26 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
I'm getting a 2TB drive which uses 4kB sectors instead of 512 byte ones. I suppose by now everything will just work and the various tools will now by default create correctly aligned partitions?

Re: [gentoo-user] Is wrong 4k sector alignment still an issue?

2012-06-26 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 4:13 PM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@gmail.com wrote: I'm getting a 2TB drive which uses 4kB sectors instead of 512 byte ones.  I suppose by now everything will just work and the various tools will now by default create correctly aligned partitions? Most of them should.

Re: [gentoo-user] Is wrong 4k sector alignment still an issue?

2012-06-26 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 2:13 PM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@gmail.com wrote: I'm getting a 2TB drive which uses 4kB sectors instead of 512 byte ones.  I suppose by now everything will just work and the various tools will now by default create correctly aligned partitions? I guess it depends on

Re: [gentoo-user] Is wrong 4k sector alignment still an issue?

2012-06-26 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 26 Jun 2012 16:23:49 -0500, Paul Hartman wrote: I'm getting a 2TB drive which uses 4kB sectors instead of 512 byte ones.  I suppose by now everything will just work and the various tools will now by default create correctly aligned partitions? Most of them should. Latest fdisk

Re: [gentoo-user] Is wrong 4k sector alignment still an issue?

2012-06-26 Thread Michael Mol
LXF? On Jun 26, 2012 5:53 PM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Tue, 26 Jun 2012 16:23:49 -0500, Paul Hartman wrote: I'm getting a 2TB drive which uses 4kB sectors instead of 512 byte ones. I suppose by now everything will just work and the various tools will now by default

Re: [gentoo-user] Is wrong 4k sector alignment still an issue?

2012-06-26 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 26 June 2012 22:54:32 Michael Mol wrote: LXF? Linux Format, the best monthly journal for all things Linux in the world. Bar none. (For some reason they've unsubscribed me and ignored my e-mail saying I'd not unsubscribed. I must get round to starting a new subscription.) -- Rgds