On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 10:25 AM, <m.roth at 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. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com