Re: [CentOS] A parted issue

On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 10:25 AM, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:

We just got in a few server-class drives. They're Seagate Constellations, 3TB. I went to partition and format, and did a mklabel gpt in parted.

Ooops. It claims  Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B After data sheet that doesn't tell me, and a long wait*, I spoke to a Seagate tech, who agreed that it *is* 4k physical.

This is CentOS 6.2

Anyone know any way to correct this, or if it's a problem if I manually align the partition to sector 64, or 1M?

I've done a few of these with gparted (using ssh -Y from a host running X). It will align to 2M which should work for anything and it is easy to use.