On 03/28/2012 08:00 AM, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Les Mikesell wrote:
On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 4:20 PM, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Yeah... but parted is user hostile. A co-worker and I, both of whom don't need GUIs, use gparted. However, that doesn't tell me where it's aligning things.
I think its trick is the default 1M offset it adds at the start.
You may be right... but I'm not sure. We'll see if the 3tb drive I've just formatted takes less time - the others I used gparted with.
mark
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I've found every one of these utilities to be problematic at various time, particularly on systems with a GPT bios. Each one seems to have its own strengths and weaknesses. Though I don't remember exactly how it works, my recollection is that there are ways to trick fdisk into doing alignment by specifying the -H (number of heads) and the -S (number of sectors per track). You'll have 1 unaligned partition at the beginning because of the MBR, but all the rest can be forced into the desired alignment.
Nataraj