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From: Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is wrong 4k sector alignment still an issue?
Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2012 23:08:29
Message-Id: CAEH5T2MztHe7vyZYb7DMYAXXb749w0ZfxU5jUk_8Lt240tcnCA@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: Is wrong 4k sector alignment still an issue? by Nikos Chantziaras
1 On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 5:33 PM, Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.com> wrote:
2 > On 27/06/12 01:22, Neil Bothwick wrote:
3 >>
4 >> On Wed, 27 Jun 2012 01:06:53 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
5 >>
6 >>>> I'm getting a 2TB drive which uses 4kB sectors instead of 512 byte
7 >>>> ones. I suppose by now everything will "just work" and the various
8 >>>> tools will now by default create correctly aligned partitions?
9 >>>
10 >>>
11 >>> Thanks everyone for the comments.  I'm using cfdisk, since I find it's
12 >>> the easiest CLI partitioner (fdisk and parted don't offer menus but you
13 >>> need to type commands; I hate that).
14 >>
15 >>
16 >> If you use a GPT partition table, you can use cgdisk and banish the
17 >> abominations of extended and logical partitions at the same time.
18 >
19 >
20 > I've no idea whether my mainboard can boot from it.  It *seems* it has UEFI,
21 > but I'm not really sure.
22
23 I think it just depends on your bootloader. Gentoo's grub legacy can
24 boot from GPT and of course grub2 can too.

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