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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is wrong 4k sector alignment still an issue?
Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2012 22:24:35
Message-Id: 20120626232253.363fef5d@hactar.digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: Is wrong 4k sector alignment still an issue? by Nikos Chantziaras
1 On Wed, 27 Jun 2012 01:06:53 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
2
3 > > I'm getting a 2TB drive which uses 4kB sectors instead of 512 byte
4 > > ones. I suppose by now everything will "just work" and the various
5 > > tools will now by default create correctly aligned partitions?
6 >
7 > Thanks everyone for the comments. I'm using cfdisk, since I find it's
8 > the easiest CLI partitioner (fdisk and parted don't offer menus but you
9 > need to type commands; I hate that).
10
11 If you use a GPT partition table, you can use cgdisk and banish the
12 abominations of extended and logical partitions at the same time.
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16 Neil Bothwick
17
18 Evolution stops when stupidity is no longer fatal!

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[gentoo-user] Re: Is wrong 4k sector alignment still an issue? Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.com>
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