From: Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] fdisk warnings during install; questions
Date: Fri, 10 May 2013 23:06:51 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201305102307.08371.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130510162832.GA6146@waltdnes.org>
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On Friday 10 May 2013 17:28:32 Walter Dnes wrote:
> While I'm on the general topic of setting up the disk, I notice that
> fdisk startup output includes..
>
> > Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
> > I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
>
> Since I'll be using ext2 for the 250 meg / and ext4 for the biggie
> /home partition, should I force mkefs* block size (the "-b" parameter)
> to 4096 to match the underlying hardware?
If you run 'fdisk -c -u /dev/sda' it should start the first sector at 2048,
which will ensure alignment of logical and physical blocks.
Then you can use fs block of 2048 or 4096 if you really want to, but I suspect
that would be quite wasteful on a partition that will store many smaller
files.
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Regards,
Mick
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Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-05-10 1:11 [gentoo-user] fdisk warnings during install; questions Walter Dnes
2013-05-10 7:52 ` Michael Hampicke
2013-05-10 8:47 ` Neil Bothwick
2013-05-10 9:44 ` Alan McKinnon
2013-05-10 10:00 ` Neil Bothwick
2013-05-10 10:55 ` Alan McKinnon
2013-05-10 11:04 ` Neil Bothwick
2013-05-10 11:09 ` Dale
2013-05-10 11:40 ` Neil Bothwick
2013-05-10 12:10 ` Dale
2013-05-10 12:23 ` Neil Bothwick
2013-05-10 13:22 ` Dale
2013-05-10 19:40 ` Neil Bothwick
2013-05-10 13:33 ` Switching from grub to grub2 - WAS " Tanstaafl
2013-05-10 19:09 ` Dale
2013-05-11 0:04 ` [gentoo-user] Re: Switching from grub to grub2 - WAS " walt
2013-05-10 19:42 ` Switching from grub to grub2 - WAS Re: [gentoo-user] " Neil Bothwick
2013-05-11 11:39 ` Stroller
2013-05-11 16:52 ` Neil Bothwick
2013-05-10 15:54 ` J. Roeleveld
2013-05-10 13:31 ` Tanstaafl
2013-05-10 15:54 ` Walter Dnes
2013-05-10 19:36 ` Neil Bothwick
2013-05-10 15:40 ` Walter Dnes
2013-05-10 11:36 ` Thanasis
2013-05-10 11:41 ` Wang Xuerui
2013-05-10 11:41 ` Neil Bothwick
2013-05-10 14:57 ` Bruce Hill
2013-05-10 10:26 ` pk
2013-05-10 16:28 ` Walter Dnes
2013-05-10 22:06 ` Mick [this message]
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