On 27/01/11 08:07, Stefan Seyfried wrote:
On Thu, 27 Jan 2011 05:59:34 +0000 Sid Boyce
wrote: Pardon my slip, sector was the word I had been searching for. I've always used fdisk in the past, so it never occurred to me that the SDHC wasn't faulty. The penny dropped when I tried re-partitioning the HD. Definitely looks like a fdisk bug, cfdisk was totally OK.
Not a bug. SSDs need aligned partitions. Common wisdom is to start at a 1048576 byte offset to ensure this.
Yes, this wastes 1MiB. No, this is not fatal with current storage capacities, especially considering the severe performance problems you get when not obeying proper alignment.
cfdisk is probably just buggy and killing SSD performance.
I didn't try cfdisk on the 16GB SSD, there was no way I could make fdisk see more than 8GB. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, Licensed Private Pilot Emeritus IBM/Amdahl Mainframes and Sun/Fujitsu Servers Tech Support Senior Staff Specialist, Cricket Coach Microsoft Windows Free Zone - Linux used for all Computing Tasks -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org