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Re: disk partitioners vs disk with 2048 byte phusical sectors

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On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 10:43:29AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Wednesday 27 September 2017 08:46:30 Roberto C. Sánchez wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 08:42:08AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > > 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.
> >
> > You don't mention which tool(s) you've already attempted, but have you
> > looked at parted?
> >
> parted and fdisk, parted was I think mentioned in what you snipped,  but 
> fdisk doesn't know how to even check alignment. (that I know of) The 
> last time I used fdisk I got write rates under 15 megs/second on a 
> sata-ii interface. I backed it up and fixed it with gparted and its now 
> doing about 120 megs/second.
> 
You mentioned gparted, which is a graphical version of parted.  Since
gparted worked for you, I figured the non-graphical parted might do what
you need.  Personally, I have had good success specifying arbitrary
geometries with parted from the command-line.

> Secondary question. On efi setups, how much blank space in front of the 
> 1st partition is needed for that stuff on a terrabyte drive?  Or is 
> there even a rule of thumb about that?
> 
I thought only 1 MB was needed before the first partition, but I haven't
messed with efi much.

> Thanks Roberto.
> 
No problem.

Regards,

-Roberto

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Roberto C. Sánchez

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Re: disk partitioners vs disk with 2048 byte phusical sectors Roberto C. Sánchez <roberto@debian.org> - 2017-09-27 14:50 +0200
  Re: disk partitioners vs disk with 2048 byte phusical sectors Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2017-09-27 16:50 +0200
    Re: disk partitioners vs disk with 2048 byte phusical sectors Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2017-09-27 17:00 +0200
    Re: disk partitioners vs disk with 2048 byte phusical sectors Roberto C. Sánchez <roberto@debian.org> - 2017-09-27 17:00 +0200
      Re: disk partitioners vs disk with 2048 byte phusical sectors Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2017-09-27 19:20 +0200
        Re: disk partitioners vs disk with 2048 byte phusical sectors David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2017-09-28 03:30 +0200
    Re: disk partitioners vs disk with 2048 byte phusical sectors Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2017-09-27 17:30 +0200
      Re: disk partitioners vs disk with 2048 byte phusical sectors Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2017-09-27 19:30 +0200

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