From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NfsUV-0005BC-2Z for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 12 Feb 2010 10:11:15 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D133FE10A1; Fri, 12 Feb 2010 10:10:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com (fg-out-1718.google.com [72.14.220.155]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86EADE10A1 for ; Fri, 12 Feb 2010 10:10:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id e12so122640fga.10 for ; Fri, 12 Feb 2010 02:10:49 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:reply-to:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=bYbhdcSUdfHfst7oHbf4RhUWwI4FNxZqGtiAN/U0qco=; b=iyvPZlRAmnzMUK2TPPDLkxQKxm01rw3qWkytLQqiV2+RDzflNNEMyMN6oblFZi2iqq 8kaDnKpPQNd2/p9SK6xNyl4LG2S526sFyfP3Scuuqd3EQqK8PEX9cppFWrHmQHwvHmcz LGbgUCY2di6cbfeiBma97dpM+1VNslXPMXXHs= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:reply-to:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=BuslnOFtkQH1S6XcpW6KLtoD63/eUiojvjrFExSDCoO4IHiZxhl63WZ7pNMBnx4M72 XAaa4bxDtfAPp1x4TIF55fS63dalMmcQAs2DhNHwp/789YIbrqizy1/szPZ9lceuDspr W5/SuiP+CXXnI4SWjbPXPWo/KalxUUvbmzjXg= Received: by 10.103.80.31 with SMTP id h31mr770659mul.8.1265969445813; Fri, 12 Feb 2010 02:10:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from lappy.localnet (83-215-53-147.saalf.dyn.salzburg-online.at [83.215.53.147]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 23sm17367794mum.33.2010.02.12.02.10.42 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Fri, 12 Feb 2010 02:10:42 -0800 (PST) From: Mick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] 1-Terabyte drives - 4K sector sizes? -> bar performance so far Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 09:06:12 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.3 (Linux/2.6.31-gentoo-r6; KDE/4.3.3; i686; ; ) References: <5bdc1c8b1002070827i14f59047k39a695900ebe9889@mail.gmail.com> <5bdc1c8b1002081637k685720eewc3b1a805653837d7@mail.gmail.com> <5bdc1c8b1002090831w3ff26474r577821cac5d91196@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <5bdc1c8b1002090831w3ff26474r577821cac5d91196@mail.gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart2067667.nYtmpxfJPD"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201002120906.27648.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 58516ec8-a52b-459c-818e-f80cf785dd54 X-Archives-Hash: 19b63633ee2deb123535e647ed648e25 --nextPart2067667.nYtmpxfJPD Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tuesday 09 February 2010 16:31:15 Mark Knecht wrote: > On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 4:37 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > >=20 > > There's a few small downsides I've run into with all of this so far: > > > > 1) Since we don't use sector 63 it seems that fdisk will still tell > > you that you can use 63 until you use up all your primary partitions. > > It used to be easier to put additional partitions on when it gave you > > the next sector you could use after the one you just added.. Now I'm > > finding that I need to write things down and figure it out more > > carefully outside of fdisk. >=20 > Replying mostly to myself, WRT the value 63 continuing to show up > after making the first partition start at 64, in my case since for > desktop machines the first partition is general /boot, and as it's > written and read so seldom, in the future when faced with this problem > I will likely start /boot at 63 and just ensure that all the other > partitions - /, /var, /home, etc., start on boundaries divisible by 8. >=20 > It will make using fdisk slightly more pleasant. I noticed while working on two new laptops with gparted that resizing Windo= ws=20 7 and creating new partitions showed up small blank partitions (marked as=20 hidden) in between the resized, and/or the new partitions. If I recall=20 correctly these were only a few KB each so rather small as such. I am not= =20 sure why gparted created these - could it be related to the drive=20 automatically aligning partitions to this 4K sector size that is discussed= =20 here? =2D-=20 Regards, Mick --nextPart2067667.nYtmpxfJPD Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAkt1GhMACgkQVTDTR3kpaLbjogCgsUn60xqH1BnHwx9sP39ki6Tu 6bkAn1PwO/Hv3rnqnWBqmPv5CzF2QKJb =enwd -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart2067667.nYtmpxfJPD--