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 1SjeBW-0003tN-KY for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 26 Jun 2012 22:24:35 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 28343E04D6; Tue, 26 Jun 2012 22:24:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.digimed.co.uk (82-69-83-178.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A387BE0175 for ; Tue, 26 Jun 2012 22:22:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from hactar.digimed.co.uk (hactar.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.3]) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 39BE480436 for ; Tue, 26 Jun 2012 23:22:58 +0100 (BST) Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2012 23:22:53 +0100 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is wrong 4k sector alignment still an issue? Message-ID: <20120626232253.363fef5d@hactar.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: References: Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.8.0cvs56 (GTK+ 2.24.10; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 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; micalg=PGP-SHA1; boundary="Sig_/NO7QQe8AYsb2J9Z0vvNXP38"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: 65928bbc-2eed-4662-8672-47d05f818577 X-Archives-Hash: 047e85bb10898da3e498aafe4a241f56 --Sig_/NO7QQe8AYsb2J9Z0vvNXP38 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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? =20 >=20 > Thanks everyone for the comments. I'm using cfdisk, since I find it's=20 > the easiest CLI partitioner (fdisk and parted don't offer menus but you=20 > need to type commands; I hate that). If you use a GPT partition table, you can use cgdisk and banish the abominations of extended and logical partitions at the same time. --=20 Neil Bothwick Evolution stops when stupidity is no longer fatal! --Sig_/NO7QQe8AYsb2J9Z0vvNXP38 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk/qNkEACgkQum4al0N1GQMvxwCeI/7ZMBwuWpDUgCIBuLRgZorL OgQAnih9MI7gGNXAIOtNnGeojkfGyX17 =2449 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/NO7QQe8AYsb2J9Z0vvNXP38--