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On Friday 10 May 2013 17:28:32 Walter Dnes wrote: |
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> While I'm on the general topic of setting up the disk, I notice that |
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> fdisk startup output includes.. |
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> > Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes |
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> > I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes |
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> Since I'll be using ext2 for the 250 meg / and ext4 for the biggie |
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> /home partition, should I force mkefs* block size (the "-b" parameter) |
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> to 4096 to match the underlying hardware? |
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If you run 'fdisk -c -u /dev/sda' it should start the first sector at 2048, |
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which will ensure alignment of logical and physical blocks. |
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Then you can use fs block of 2048 or 4096 if you really want to, but I suspect |
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that would be quite wasteful on a partition that will store many smaller |
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files. |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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