On 03/18/2010 11:12 AM, Till Maas wrote:
> I just bought a WD20EARS and tested on F12. fdisk has an option to set
> the sector size to 4096 byte, but it will still use sector 63 by default
> for a new partition. Shouldn't it then default to sector 16, which is
> sector 64 with 512 byte sector size?
The default pseudo-geometry will still be 63 sectors/track unless you
change it, and by default a partition's start-of-data is forced to the
beginning of a track. Making the sectors larger doesn't change that.
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