Re: Howto for properly partitioning new drives with 4096 byte sectors (like Western Digital Advanced Format EARS drives)

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On 01/28/2010 02:44 PM, Karel Zak wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 10:10:05PM +0100, Christoph Zimmermann wrote:
>> to be prepared for the switch to hdd with sector sizes larger than 512
>> byte there must be a new default to align partitions to.
> 
>  The plan is to use 2048 sectors (1MiB) as a default for disks with
>  unknown topology. I'll do this change in fdisk next week and the same
>  is planned for parted. 

I think this should be a minimum regardless of any detected disk
topology, except perhaps in the case of extremely small media.

	-hpa

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