Devin Reade wrote: > --On Monday, July 25, 2011 01:56:38 PM -0400 m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: > >> I think it was when I was building a 6.0 box a couple weeks ago, but I'd >> partition, it would do an mkfs... and *then* tell me it wasn't aligned, >> and I played with it several times, and it absolutely would NOT align >> it, nor offer to do so. > > When I was building out a 6.0 box a few days ago using 4k sector > drives, I first booted into rescue mode and partitioned using > fdisk via: > fdisk -uc -H 224 -S 56 /dev/sd{a,b,c,d} > (I'm not sure, but the -H and -S might be irrelevent due to the -uc.) <snip> No joy - I think I have to use parted - the drive was too big for fdisk. mark