* Re: [gentoo-user] Is wrong 4k sector alignment still an issue?
@ 2012-06-26 21:25 99% ` Mark Knecht
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From: Mark Knecht @ 2012-06-26 21:25 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 2:13 PM, Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@gmail.com> 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?
>
>
I guess it depends on what tools you use to create partitions but I
believe the stable version of fdisk does now align to 4k by default.
Just make sure the starting address is divisible by 8 and you should
be good to go no matter what tools you use.
HTH,
Mark
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