Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From:	Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com>
To:	gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject:	Re: [gentoo-user] Is wrong 4k sector alignment still an issue?
Date:	Tue, 26 Jun 2012 21:27:27
Message-Id:	`CAK2H+edh5XBjSrZ+2=wa+3+Ge6sMQMWSJnOxQzjcMZ3w=SHP4w@mail.gmail.com`
In Reply to:	[gentoo-user] Is wrong 4k sector alignment still an issue? by Nikos Chantziaras

1	On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 2:13 PM, Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.com> wrote:
2	> I'm getting a 2TB drive which uses 4kB sectors instead of 512 byte ones. I
3	> suppose by now everything will "just work" and the various tools will now by
4	> default create correctly aligned partitions?
5	>
6	>
7
8	I guess it depends on what tools you use to create partitions but I
9	believe the stable version of fdisk does now align to 4k by default.
10	Just make sure the starting address is divisible by 8 and you should
11	be good to go no matter what tools you use.
12
13	HTH,
14	Mark