Note that some WD Advanced Format drives currently available on the market have 4096 byte physical sectors, but hide that fact from the outside world and only report 512 byte sectors.
See this discussion on util-linux-ng mailing list: http://markmail.org/message/dsccia7fz6uo3gnj#query:+page:1+mid:mdonhvuf5hrbxlot+state:results The only reasonable solution for this is to align partitions by default on a boundary that's known to be almost always good, unless the exact drive topology can be determined. The consensus regarding util-linux's fdisk (and the already committed fix) is to align on a 1MiB boundary by default: http://markmail.org/message/s5bxs7hn2odk6iqj#query:%22Howto%20for%20properly%20partitioning%20new%20drives%20with%204096%20byte%20sectors%22+page:1+mid:dde3jjrdmiiom5nd+state:results It's unclear whether parted-2.1 does this already or does it need an analogous fix like fdisk did: http://parted.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/trac.cgi/ticket/251 ** Bug watch added: Parted tracker #251 http://parted.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/trac.cgi/ticket/251 -- FFe: Update to upstream GNU parted-2.1 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/511075 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
