From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B92671381F3 for ; Fri, 10 May 2013 22:07:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E0373E0949; Fri, 10 May 2013 22:07:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wg0-f43.google.com (mail-wg0-f43.google.com [74.125.82.43]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 90659E08A6 for ; Fri, 10 May 2013 22:07:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-wg0-f43.google.com with SMTP id c11so4557629wgh.10 for ; Fri, 10 May 2013 15:07:12 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=x-received:from:reply-to:to:subject:date:user-agent:references :in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding :message-id; bh=Me2ot2FKkTssMHRLsbOdyOxtoO/+zisiJ59aSA4gpLU=; b=MpwmTQRTH0iVvV3En93Rlxxgnl5xIegbSI7P1lNgVv4Hk8nazeRJWdrlvFtJsDKIdB eKSItfcjcPLGc+sz4oc4nxpXwwfgg/dqpN9ff3KUjjDMUTZ99grDiMN9YggQdd4gNDOX uORyZJyfDmPZ5GIJGd/fg5IvGmh5ql4QBxVWuYzTlDfpH5T13nTOeO7oaNnrTptkhqtT 5wnuMlD2KzW7bLDRUF0wSKB7iNVv+khWhBd5YwPTVLd9lE0E/a9/QsPl8+CVdbs9LvGw /WZpssCSfg5HbB6fP2pO1m/HAdTDimAPsKFRcISrcoTosO9NBipwrdUQ38/C98NFSZxx I6xg== X-Received: by 10.194.133.232 with SMTP id pf8mr5744856wjb.40.1368223632188; Fri, 10 May 2013 15:07:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dell_xps.localnet (230.3.169.217.in-addr.arpa. [217.169.3.230]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id q20sm541256wiv.7.2013.05.10.15.07.10 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Fri, 10 May 2013 15:07:11 -0700 (PDT) From: Mick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] fdisk warnings during install; questions Date: Fri, 10 May 2013 23:06:51 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (Linux/3.7.10-gentoo; KDE/4.10.2; x86_64; ; ) References: <20130510011122.GA3929@waltdnes.org> <20130510162832.GA6146@waltdnes.org> In-Reply-To: <20130510162832.GA6146@waltdnes.org> 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="nextPart1700198.C5o9bcHZx6"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201305102307.08371.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: a74277a1-1393-4d10-8cf1-8336b5d3ea11 X-Archives-Hash: a8813a7c493a7b911d14f7afb3dc3290 --nextPart1700198.C5o9bcHZx6 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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.. >=20 > > Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes > > I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes >=20 > 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,= =20 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 susp= ect=20 that would be quite wasteful on a partition that will store many smaller=20 files. =2D-=20 Regards, Mick --nextPart1700198.C5o9bcHZx6 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) iQEcBAABAgAGBQJRjW+MAAoJELAdA+zwE4YeZywIAJnwL5VUpqR+EkOz7aJri3cR oThxRGJs1Txa0hxIF4QSH06+RhtkKPf+Vhk5ujgSVB1oEtJ/x0zJX69TuZP6LsAy TclfCOuP+gDSlxUNssMs16zKnDzex8oTlkkhcVneR5mLZE0bKeVNCoV7Ji7PbxYf K2ww+YAIBjTlVSzSVvKa2DImvSpaR8O83/XXjrxRsbIkhw9xNKVP/2AsFU8OlbIL b4Zr2iCe3d7VQzrcBmLf7IyaYQsEKdK0LVYfiqLoeO4XmGPbhggHtnOXRpJ1SlXD hJyx53BgpdLx6aHlH8VszeQ5nWrdAoMhFXoft6cM5h0zOiZPOPATBnlfMz4K55I= =npB/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1700198.C5o9bcHZx6--