John R Pierce wrote:
On 6/5/2014 1:56 PM, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
mkpart pri 0.0GB x.GB *always* gives me aligned partions (and parted - talk about user
hostile programs! "Not aligned", with not a clue as to what it actually wants....)
I've taken to always running parted with -a none, as its alignment rules
are based on old concepts like cylinders, heads, which are meaningless and even WRONG on today's storage devices. (63 heads, 255 sectors is not uncommon, this means everything at a cylinder or head is on an ODD sector boundary, ouch!)
Dunno 'bout that, but my method is what I found after much googling, and seem to provide better throughput on the drives, *esp* if they're large (> 2TB), and have physical sectors of 4k, but which are usually presented as the traditional 512B
mark
PS: I HATE manitu, I *hate* IX, and I've emailed them to that effect, the *ssh*l*s.
I'll ask again: is it against the rules of this list to have whitelisted posters?