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* Re: [gentoo-user] Is wrong 4k sector alignment still an issue?
  @ 2012-06-26 21:49 99%   ` Neil Bothwick
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From: Neil Bothwick @ 2012-06-26 21:49 UTC (permalink / raw
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On Tue, 26 Jun 2012 16:23:49 -0500, Paul Hartman wrote:

> > I'm getting a 2TB drive which uses 4kB sectors instead of 512 byte
> > ones.  I suppose by now everything will "just work" and the various
> > tools will now by default create correctly aligned partitions?  
> 
> Most of them should. Latest fdisk and gdisk should align to 1MB and
> latest parted etc. should as well.

I researched this for the latest issue of LXF and the only one that still
uses 512K blocks is cfdisk (cgdisk is fine).


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