On 8/5/2015 12:37 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: > On Wed, Aug 5, 2015 at 10:34 AM, Chris Murphy <lists at colorremedies.com> wrote: >> On Wed, Aug 5, 2015 at 9:12 AM, Bowie Bailey <Bowie_Bailey at buc.com> wrote: >>> I am trying to upgrade my system from 500GB drives to 1TB. >> I'm going to guess that there are no IDE drives that have 4096 byte >> physical sectors, but it's worth confirming you don't have such a >> drive because the current partition scheme you've posted would be >> sub-optimal if it does have 4096 byte sectors. > Oops. I just reread that this is now SATA. New versions of hdparm and > smartctl can tell you if the drive is Advanced Format, and if it is, > then I recommend redoing the partition scheme so it's 4K aligned. And > so that it has an MBR gap. The current way to do this is have the 1st > partition start at LBA 2048. I tried 'smartctl -a' and 'hdparm -I', but I don't see anything about Advanced Format. What am I looking for? I can redo the partitions, but I'm not sure how to tell fdisk to start a partition at LBA 2048. -- Bowie