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From: Michael Mol <mikemol@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Is wrong 4k sector alignment still an issue?
Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2012 21:56:46
Message-Id: CA+czFiAbZ2wrfCyQs2EseEMuj_vKw7t38y_7hchz7iStkVFp0w@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Is wrong 4k sector alignment still an issue? by Neil Bothwick
1 LXF?
2 On Jun 26, 2012 5:53 PM, "Neil Bothwick" <neil@××××××××××.uk> wrote:
3
4 > On Tue, 26 Jun 2012 16:23:49 -0500, Paul Hartman 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 > > Most of them should. Latest fdisk and gdisk should align to 1MB and
11 > > latest parted etc. should as well.
12 >
13 > I researched this for the latest issue of LXF and the only one that still
14 > uses 512K blocks is cfdisk (cgdisk is fine).
15 >
16 >
17 > --
18 > Neil Bothwick
19 >
20 > Top Oxymorons Number 48: freewill offering
21 >

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Re: [gentoo-user] Is wrong 4k sector alignment still an issue? Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××××.org>