Re: [gentoo-user] Want to seriously test a NEW hard drive

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Wed, 08 Aug 2012 22:22:25 -0500, 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.
> Do not use cfdisk on 2TB+ drives, it gives bad alignment. Use gdisk or
> cgdisk with GPT partition tables. Create a 1MB partition at the start of
> type EF02, which keeps backward compatibility, then partition as normal.
>
> Note that GPT has none of the primary/logical crap, just create the
> partitions you want.
>
>

Ahhhh, so that 1Mb partition is what does the alignment thingy?  Is it
the same on all large drives or does it vary a bit based on size?

Thanks.

Dale

:-)  :-) 

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