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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Is wrong 4k sector alignment still an issue?
From: Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com>
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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. =
=C2=A0I
> 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