Re: disk partitioners vs disk with 2048 byte phusical sectors

From	Cousin Stanley <cousinstanley@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: disk partitioners vs disk with 2048 byte phusical sectors
Date	2017-09-27 19:40 +0200
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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.
> .... 

  Gene  .... 

    You might try the  cfdisk  partition tool .... 

    # sudo cfdisk /dev/sda

  It is available on my rock64/4gb deb stretch minimal install,
  and although I've used it successfully on other debian machines
  I don't know about the sector size problem you posted about ....

-- 
Stanley C. Kitching
Human Being
Phoenix, Arizona

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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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