On 03/28/2012 08:00 AM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: > Les Mikesell wrote: >> On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 4:20 PM, <m.roth at 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 > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos 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