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 1Sjdwx-0006fA-Mr for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 26 Jun 2012 22:09:32 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 48F41E0077; Tue, 26 Jun 2012 22:09:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 069ECE0531 for ; Tue, 26 Jun 2012 22:07:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 635211B460B for ; Tue, 26 Jun 2012 22:07:26 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -1.161 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.161 tagged_above=-999 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.152, BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED=0.001, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, FSL_RCVD_USER=0.001, NML_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED=0.9, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-0.01] autolearn=no Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id i4LAmLgE1fsC for ; Tue, 26 Jun 2012 22:07:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from plane.gmane.org (plane.gmane.org [80.91.229.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A7B021B4602 for ; Tue, 26 Jun 2012 22:07:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Sjduk-0001mS-PQ for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Wed, 27 Jun 2012 00:07:14 +0200 Received: from athedsl-344886.home.otenet.gr ([85.72.202.212]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 27 Jun 2012 00:07:14 +0200 Received: from realnc by athedsl-344886.home.otenet.gr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 27 Jun 2012 00:07:14 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Nikos Chantziaras Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Is wrong 4k sector alignment still an issue? Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2012 01:06:53 +0300 Organization: Lucas Barks Message-ID: References: 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: athedsl-344886.home.otenet.gr User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:13.0) Gecko/20120607 Thunderbird/13.0 In-Reply-To: X-Archives-Salt: 9af98627-b283-481b-9118-fe11f32bf5c6 X-Archives-Hash: 9747b56f15fccc57ba9e1a8e94d0e9b7 On 27/06/12 00:13, Nikos Chantziaras 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? Thanks everyone for the comments. I'm using cfdisk, since I find it's the easiest CLI partitioner (fdisk and parted don't offer menus but you need to type commands; I hate that). I guess I should now switch to something else. I guess it's time for GParted (I'd prefer something for KDE, but it looks like there's nothing offered.)