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 1NetUs-00068O-83 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 09 Feb 2010 17:03:35 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D2481E0FE4 for ; Tue, 9 Feb 2010 17:03:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-px0-f201.google.com (mail-px0-f201.google.com [209.85.216.201]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C018E0F02 for ; Tue, 9 Feb 2010 16:31:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pxi39 with SMTP id 39so272346pxi.2 for ; Tue, 09 Feb 2010 08:31:15 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=MMDyAKn4RamM0gKekZEGPh5D7HwdAEcut72S4SLLlWE=; b=LhscEJvszE+26Y7FqbwpvX7MeVF+g+gdHeZK/lKwbbjlGzgibGV51/ZPwlfAZeuvOf sRdSvacD7mcAxXsciXMFljshSTK1B1FPPEAVAubWANGG2po+gPAY0HRnSvXqb7UGUmKZ +9h3LR8RkivWvxuBZpTOL1/+M3MUhKIV6NVj8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; b=UecggKcyZODeJ1E5hpSab6UvH6Wfoa+iG7/+jL3lYGyQM9I8bm2FJIjVU2rXNnv5vT YKlscpZBNwbvtUIXE79Hhqta5F6FG0Klr0WfNbiUzraMx9lx2x0wRBrSG6HzmWr+3HfT OCxSAdiuh7XdehejP7Ja1NC/Sn8UEouferh0k= 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 Received: by 10.142.67.7 with SMTP id p7mr2273845wfa.120.1265733075724; Tue, 09 Feb 2010 08:31:15 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <5bdc1c8b1002081637k685720eewc3b1a805653837d7@mail.gmail.com> References: <5bdc1c8b1002070827i14f59047k39a695900ebe9889@mail.gmail.com> <20100207193947.GB30196@math.princeton.edu> <5bdc1c8b1002071342v6c81cf13gde7bcef72be5017b@mail.gmail.com> <201002090105.13960.Warp_7@gmx.de> <5bdc1c8b1002081637k685720eewc3b1a805653837d7@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2010 08:31:15 -0800 Message-ID: <5bdc1c8b1002090831w3ff26474r577821cac5d91196@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] 1-Terabyte drives - 4K sector sizes? -> bar performance so far From: Mark Knecht To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Archives-Salt: 292c3096-32d5-4a1e-b97b-3f6589f167d1 X-Archives-Hash: e214fa45e6ab81d5bccebb58de8a4c09 On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 4:37 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > > There's a few small downsides I've run into with all of this so far: > > 1) Since we don't use sector 63 it seems that fdisk will still tell > you that you can use 63 until you use up all your primary partitions. > It used to be easier to put additional partitions on when it gave you > the next sector you could use after the one you just added.. Now I'm > finding that I need to write things down and figure it out more > carefully outside of fdisk. > Replying mostly to myself, WRT the value 63 continuing to show up after making the first partition start at 64, in my case since for desktop machines the first partition is general /boot, and as it's written and read so seldom, in the future when faced with this problem I will likely start /boot at 63 and just ensure that all the other partitions - /, /var, /home, etc., start on boundaries divisible by 8. It will make using fdisk slightly more pleasant. - Mark