* Thomas Bächler <thomas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> [21.04.2010 09:41]: > Am 21.04.2010 09:34, schrieb Jan de Groot: > > On Tue, 2010-04-20 at 20:52 -0400, Caleb Cushing wrote: > >> has anyone installed arch on one of these drives? thinking about > >> buying a pair and running them mirrored... but not sure if everything > >> will be working optimal. note: since I'll have to migrate off an > >> existing drive I can use the tools installed on that to partition it > >> first. Is there anything I should know first? > > > > You will have to align partitions on a 4K boundary, performance will be > > miserable without that. I think parted is the best tool to do > > partitioning in this case, as parted supports aligning. > > > > I think the very very latest util-linux-ng will have fdisk/cfdisk > that'll handle it just fine. > I can second that, I don't have Arch installed on a 4k drive but I have an external drive, which I partitioned with fdisk -c -u /dev/sdX and there's no speed drop at all, so you can use this command line without any worries
