Gparted and partion magic will do it. Windows will do it if you format via the disk management console.
Geoff
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-----Original Message----- From: "William L. Maltby" CentOS4Bill@triad.rr.com
Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2007 14:43:48 To:CentOS General List centos@centos.org Subject: Re: [CentOS] Formatting a large disk
On Sun, 2007-09-23 at 11:30 -0700, Bart Schaefer wrote:
On 9/23/07, Bart Schaefer barton.schaefer@gmail.com wrote:
gist of it was that in any other partition the tools would not increase the block size above 512
Sorry for the self-follow-up ... but I meant "sector size" there, not "block".
IIRC, sector size is controlled at the hardware level(used to be set with jumpers and/or low-level format programs?). I seem to recall that new drives don't really have "sectors" anymore, but have supporting circuits/(EE)proms that emulate that?
I've never seen a sector size that could be set by a partioning program.
But I've certainly not seen *everything*.
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