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 1NfuQT-0000wk-IB for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 12 Feb 2010 12:15:13 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F2E48E0CD0; Fri, 12 Feb 2010 12:14:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-pz0-f199.google.com (mail-pz0-f199.google.com [209.85.222.199]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE13EE0CD0 for ; Fri, 12 Feb 2010 12:14:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pzk37 with SMTP id 37so1600462pzk.10 for ; Fri, 12 Feb 2010 04:14:21 -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 :content-transfer-encoding; bh=7S9SuEQVTpe5WjXR3gboe3SmeEW1G57e/9I2e4mJTP0=; b=qtlRzfA+QilflOdptyL+yLTC1S/QEU/TvHuSAZy1+eZ9lXFYsw6tiJVIflI5BZz8jk 5aDIGyFYfiPx9xzRTbn3k2GGgsznJb7BZGkGGmkU4NPCIGI6yxcfI/KhcdjaTqhIHEzM IALa5Mgz4A04k/kYY1bikflBZajW9lxN84xjU= 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:content-transfer-encoding; b=vgykCVolp/xKSpXDObKPnONdocIfdLcdVyb+1Ep+G53P8yJ9MqnuPl5MO4YNJnsiCl pBM7C8pJ49SryyRYG3aUX3obck6rau5HF05W0hpebpU9fN+UUp2n/ozQQlziGiVZ1/VQ 93n9t/5ZAc5Izgwu5TxUpfCuqiYhKLZS7ENzI= 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 10.142.8.40 with SMTP id 40mr860220wfh.247.1265976861118; Fri, 12 Feb 2010 04:14:21 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <201002120906.27648.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> References: <5bdc1c8b1002070827i14f59047k39a695900ebe9889@mail.gmail.com> <5bdc1c8b1002081637k685720eewc3b1a805653837d7@mail.gmail.com> <5bdc1c8b1002090831w3ff26474r577821cac5d91196@mail.gmail.com> <201002120906.27648.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 04:14:20 -0800 Message-ID: <5bdc1c8b1002120414t279eed6epa9db19a3f78f4684@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 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: e9c4a831-490e-4d8b-a058-4dff8c559445 X-Archives-Hash: 78b46d7dd05f7e1913b74f620404f5e1 On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 1:06 AM, Mick wrote: > On Tuesday 09 February 2010 16:31:15 Mark Knecht wrote: >> 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 =C2=A0my 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. > > I noticed while working on two new laptops with gparted that resizing Win= dows > 7 and creating new partitions showed up small blank partitions (marked as > hidden) in between the resized, and/or the new partitions. =C2=A0If I rec= all > correctly these were only a few KB each so rather small as such. =C2=A0I = am not > sure why gparted created these - could it be related to the drive > automatically aligning partitions to this 4K sector size that is discusse= d > here? > -- > Regards, > Mick > http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0902.3/01024.html Cheers, Mark