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disk partitioners vs disk with 2048 byte phusical sectors

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Greetings all;

I just bought a 1TB disk, in a usb3 interface format, had a full disk 
ntfs partition on it.  The machine its to be used on is an arm64 
rockchip called a rock64. It looks like a pi killer and I intend to 
replace the 1GB of memory pi-3b with this 4GB of memory card.

This disk has a 2048 byte sector. From dmesg:
[ 2401.645069] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Spinning up disk...
[ 2402.650332] ...ready
[ 2404.664052] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 1953525167 512-byte logical blocks: 
(1.00 TB/932 GiB)
[ 2404.676277] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 2048-byte physical blocks

But I've now spent several hours trying to put the 1st of 3 partitions on 
it with figures that satisfy parted's align-check, including calculation 
of values that result in mod(2048)=0. Nothing seems to satisfy parted.

So I've come to the conclusion parted is broken for this size of physical 
sector.

Do we have a disk partitioner that does understand a physical sector size 
of any power of 2? gparted is out as this machine does not yet have an x 
server installed, so I need a commandline tool.

Suggestions will be investigated, thank you.

Cheers, Gene Heskett
-- 
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
 soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
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disk partitioners vs disk with 2048 byte phusical sectors Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2017-09-27 14:50 +0200
  Re: disk partitioners vs disk with 2048 byte phusical sectors Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2017-09-27 15:10 +0200
    Re: disk partitioners vs disk with 2048 byte phusical sectors "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2017-09-27 15:40 +0200
    Re: disk partitioners vs disk with 2048 byte phusical sectors Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2017-09-27 17:40 +0200
      Re: disk partitioners vs disk with 2048 byte phusical sectors "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2017-09-27 18:10 +0200
        Re: disk partitioners vs disk with 2048 byte phusical sectors Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2017-09-27 19:30 +0200
          Re: disk partitioners vs disk with 2048 byte phusical sectors "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2017-09-27 21:20 +0200
      Re: disk partitioners vs disk with 2048 byte phusical sectors David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2017-09-27 18:40 +0200
      Re: disk partitioners vs disk with 2048 byte phusical sectors Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2017-09-27 19:30 +0200
        Re: disk partitioners vs disk with 2048 byte phusical sectors Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2017-09-27 19:40 +0200
  Re: disk partitioners vs disk with 2048 byte phusical sectors Cousin Stanley <cousinstanley@gmail.com> - 2017-09-27 19:40 +0200

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