On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 4:24 PM, Stayvoid <stayvoid@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > I'd like to know how to create aligned partitions on a 160GB disk > which uses a 512B sector size. Almost all recent HDD/SSD have 4KiB internal sector (even when reported as 512B by ATA). Read [1]. > (Partition table: msdos) > > I've got the theory [1, 2], but I can't make it work. > > I'd like to have three partitions: > 1. ext3 ~ 100mb /boot > 2. linux-swap ~ 1GB swap > 3. ext3 (for the rest of the system) > > How to adjust the sizes? Recent versions of fdiks, parted, gdisk do it for you. This is boring in some cases. [1] https://ata.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/ATA_4_KiB_sector_issues -- Sébastien "Seblu" Luttringer www.seblu.net
