Feature changed by: Jean Delvare (jdelvare) Feature #309203, revision 3 Title: make sure harddrives with 4KiB sectors are handled correctly - openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed + openSUSE-11.3: Duplicate of #306443 + Master status: Done Priority Requester: Important Requested by: John Lombardo (tempusfugit) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: More and more harddrives with 4KiB physical sectors are showing up in the wild. Partitioned incorrectly starting on the traditional sector 63 these drives exhibit very poor performance. The linux partition toolchain is being updated to handle these drives correctly, make sure to ship up-to-date versions of the tools in question and teach yast to make the best of it. A complete overview of the issue and best practices can be found in this wiki article by kernel hacker Tejun Heo: https://ata.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/ATA_4_KiB_sector_issues + Relations: + - (feature/duplicate: 306443) Discussion: #1: Per Jessen (pjessen) (2010-03-23 10:01:31) I think this is covered under https://features.opensuse.org/306443 (306443) -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/309203