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 2D22E13800E for ; Thu, 9 Aug 2012 06:32:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BD7CEE077C; Thu, 9 Aug 2012 06:32:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-gh0-f181.google.com (mail-gh0-f181.google.com [209.85.160.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8CD45E0772 for ; Thu, 9 Aug 2012 06:31:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ghz3 with SMTP id 3so99844ghz.40 for ; Wed, 08 Aug 2012 23:31:17 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=AVs2oIbcn0Jc0nir5qW+E5Sg9Jo/meGFXKj5I+O3OrA=; b=WXkrdRmHoy0GqbuxstvbW1SXPxw0Iz3KAUj1tJYluNL9i7sMmADSvH56Sf7gg4FAXo 06rA1X9BwkTqxi1iE5CiRJiaDWGmJHUO0484TaZdfFmMKYKEnCrkK9CaJdfNzBikKvnv vrlIItqU4yALgbiG5tIggl/yDvCsS0m5RILrKIyx9AvuTwEhA21GNim3Y8Ue8pKLfZRe KvEKwmiky2rp4uiqLldAbmEbassp6lkrupLYeih71Y6Cuoun1pvjN5mLaBR6iJFNBRKK MsksMp5xKIaNwvrGcOSn84ENVvnHL+prlGj7tnQdrtZwaFi0A+Y0Qjdj7wxnaVppPpbP j3xg== Received: by 10.236.127.199 with SMTP id d47mr19880416yhi.11.1344493877057; Wed, 08 Aug 2012 23:31:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.2.5] (adsl-65-0-123-153.jan.bellsouth.net. [65.0.123.153]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id x3sm546989yhd.9.2012.08.08.23.31.15 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Wed, 08 Aug 2012 23:31:16 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <50235932.8080106@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2012 01:31:14 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:14.0) Gecko/20120717 Firefox/14.0.1 SeaMonkey/2.11 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Want to seriously test a NEW hard drive References: <501E6AFA.4000205@gmail.com> <5022A9A1.50606@gmail.com> <5022E38F.4080105@gmail.com> <50232CF1.1020400@gmail.com> <20120809061325.GA26532@dethkomp> In-Reply-To: <20120809061325.GA26532@dethkomp> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.4.3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 648385fa-8f8f-4bc3-926d-8b1cc6daa4ad X-Archives-Hash: 65da59e6a5ed0e3e55678233b33c03e2 Yohan Pereira wrote: > On 08/08/12 at 10:22pm, Dale wrote: >> I used something called Gparted to partition this monster. This is >> temporary tho. What should I be using to partition this thing? What is >> the best, and easiest, tool for me to use? I have been using cfdisk in >> the past but it doesn't seem to work on this one. I do want one very >> large partition and plan to use LVM on it too. >> >> Oh, it would be nice if the tool is on LiveCDs, SystemRescue in my >> case. I use that when the stuff hits the fan and I am covered up pretty >> deep. ;-) > > GParted is on systemrescuecd :D. Its that goldenish disk icon on the > panel. GParted is a frontend to parted you can use that directly as > well. > It turned out that my problem was getting it to "align" properly. It seems that GParted does that pretty well. I guess if I am without a GUI thingy, I can use parted. I couldn't get cgdisk to work right tho. Heck, it took me a bit to get GParted to sort it out and it is supposed to be the easy way. lol Sometimes new toys cause me grief. ;-) Since I like cfdisk, are there any tricks to using cgdisk and getting it to "align" it correctly? The drive is a Seagate ST3000DM001 3Tb drive. I think this is the key bit: Logical Sector size: 512 bytes Physical Sector size: 4096 bytes Just not sure where cgdisk wants me to put that info. Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words!