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

2012-06-29 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 29/06/12 07:22, David Haller wrote: Hello, On Fri, 29 Jun 2012, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: OK, I now have the new disk. Unfortunately, it turns out that GPT is not an option, since Grub can't dual boot an UEFI/GPT installed Windows 7 (you can't install Windows on a GPT disk if you don't

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

2012-06-28 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 27/06/12 01:22, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 27 Jun 2012 01:06:53 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras 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

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

2012-06-28 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Fri, 29 Jun 2012, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: OK, I now have the new disk. Unfortunately, it turns out that GPT is not an option, since Grub can't dual boot an UEFI/GPT installed Windows 7 (you can't install Windows on a GPT disk if you don't perform a UEFI install of Windows.) You need

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

2012-06-26 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 27/06/12 00:13, Nikos Chantziaras 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? Thanks everyone for the comments. I'm using cfdisk,

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

2012-06-26 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 27 Jun 2012 01:06:53 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras 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? Thanks everyone for the

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

2012-06-26 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 27/06/12 01:22, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 27 Jun 2012 01:06:53 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras 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

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

2012-06-26 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 5:33 PM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@gmail.com wrote: On 27/06/12 01:22, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 27 Jun 2012 01:06:53 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: I'm getting a 2TB drive which uses 4kB sectors instead of 512 byte ones. I suppose by now everything will just work

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

2012-06-26 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 27/06/12 02:06, Paul Hartman wrote: On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 5:33 PM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@gmail.com wrote: On 27/06/12 01:22, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 27 Jun 2012 01:06:53 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: I'm getting a 2TB drive which uses 4kB sectors instead of 512 byte ones. I

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

2012-06-26 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 6:18 PM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@gmail.com wrote: On 27/06/12 02:06, Paul Hartman wrote: On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 5:33 PM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@gmail.com wrote: On 27/06/12 01:22, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 27 Jun 2012 01:06:53 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: