2011/7/21 Erwan Leroux <erwan.lerou@xxxxxxxxx>: > following is how i configured advanced format drives for raid 5 > i created one partition on each disk > > fdisk -u /dev/sdX > # -u change the unit displayed by fdisk to sector instead of > cylinders, this way it's easier to configure > > # the table partition isn't really modifier until you send the w > command, so if you messed up use the q to quit and restart > > #delete first partition of the disk, repeat until you had cleared the disk > d > > # create a new partition > n > > # select primary parition > p > > #select number one (don't know if number is important, i guess it's > means /dev/sdX1) > 1 > > #select first sector, here is the catch, to properly align the disk, select 64 > 64 > Why do you choose 64? One physical sector (4KiB) is 8 logical sectors (512 B). Would any number greater or equal to 8 and evenly divisible by 8 work as well? Are you aiming to align partition start with RAID chunk boundaries? Just curious. Paweł -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
