From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Is wrong 4k sector alignment still an issue?
Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2012 22:49:12 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120626224912.5485ed74@hactar.digimed.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAEH5T2NZvxg-WkSeB9EfdeKP=A=t77v1XVQVMC9easxpB4rUFQ@mail.gmail.com>
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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 and gdisk should align to 1MB and
> latest parted etc. should as well.
I researched this for the latest issue of LXF and the only one that still
uses 512K blocks is cfdisk (cgdisk is fine).
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Neil Bothwick
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-06-26 21:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-06-26 21:13 [gentoo-user] Is wrong 4k sector alignment still an issue? Nikos Chantziaras
2012-06-26 21:23 ` Paul Hartman
2012-06-26 21:49 ` Neil Bothwick [this message]
2012-06-26 21:54 ` Michael Mol
2012-06-27 0:12 ` Peter Humphrey
2012-06-26 21:25 ` Mark Knecht
2012-06-26 22:06 ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2012-06-26 22:22 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-06-26 22:33 ` Nikos Chantziaras
2012-06-26 23:06 ` Paul Hartman
2012-06-26 23:18 ` Nikos Chantziaras
2012-06-27 3:16 ` Paul Hartman
2012-06-29 1:59 ` Nikos Chantziaras
2012-06-29 4:22 ` David Haller
2012-06-29 18:54 ` Nikos Chantziaras
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