> With nowadays RAID and SSD stuff you want to align your partitions on > stripe or blocksizes anyways. Some newer harddisks come with 4Kbyte > sectors and have a mapping to 512byte sectors so old OS'es can work with > it. You really want to align such devices, as performance is terrible > without it. Anyone with one of these new disks (such as the ones from WD, rotating platers disks, not ssd)? I'm curious to know if fdisk/cfdisk correctly detect the sector size or if the user needs to override what is detected.
