On Thursday 11 March 2010, tytso@xxxxxxx wrote: >On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 08:35:26PM +0530, Nikanth Karthikesan wrote: >> The real problem, here is just that partitioning-tools should create >> partitions that can work with both XP as well as Windows7. May be distro >> installers, should ask the user which compatibility he needs. > >4k aligned sectors will *work* with Windows XP, will it not? It's >just simply a matter of Windows XP, being really ancient, doesn't >create properly alligned partitions by default. > >And how often are we going to see Windows XP systems with these new 4k >physical sector drives anyway, where the first OS to touch the >partition is Windows XP? And in the case where this does happy, the >resulting partition will be result in terribly performance for Windows >XP as well as Linux. > >What's the specific scenario which you are trying to solve, and how >likely is it to occur in real life? And potentially one more question from a list lurker, Ted. Where are the tools that allow us to check and/or adjust that? I ask since I have 3 of these terrabyte drives in this box now and have no clue how to either check to see if we're off, or how to fix it if it is. And I have called my self following this discussion without noting if the tools have been specifically named. Thanks -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Authors are easy to get on with -- if you're fond of children. -- Michael Joseph, "Observer" -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
