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Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> On Thu, 09 Aug 2012 04:35:15 -0500, Dale wrote: |
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>>> Do not use cfdisk on 2TB+ drives, it gives bad alignment. Use gdisk or |
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>>> cgdisk with GPT partition tables. Create a 1MB partition at the start |
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>>> of type EF02, which keeps backward compatibility, then partition as |
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>>> normal. |
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>>> Note that GPT has none of the primary/logical crap, just create the |
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>>> partitions you want. |
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>> Ahhhh, so that 1Mb partition is what does the alignment thingy? Is it |
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>> the same on all large drives or does it vary a bit based on size? |
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> No, gdisk/cgdisk does the alignment. The 1MB GPT boot partition give |
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> backward compatibility with DOS booting. The size doesn't vary, I've used |
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> the same on drives from 120GB to 3TB. |
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Hmmm, then I guess I didn't do something right the first time I tried |
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cgdisk then. It said it wasn't aligned right but I couldn't figure out |
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how to get it to do it. Then I used Gparted and it seemed to do it |
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without me telling it anything. The only difference I saw was the |
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little 1Mb partition. |
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Well, I plan to dd the thing and start over with LVM and all so I'll see |
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what it does next time. Maybe I just didn't do something right. Since |
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I have nothing windoze on here, do I really need to worry about DOS |
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booting? All I have is Gentoo here. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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