Andrew, Is there a openfate proposal? They are easy to create. Any opensuse user with a login can do it. Since this is not a bug, just a functionality change proposal, bugzilla is not the right place. Greg On 4/18/11, Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer@gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 1:28 PM, Andrew Joakimsen <joakimsen@gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 06:18, David Haller <dnh@opensuse.org> wrote:
Hello,
On Sun, 17 Apr 2011, Andrew Joakimsen wrote:
understands what is going on can make sure it is setup properly. There is no formula to convert from cylinders to sectors!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cylinder-head-sector#CHS_to_LBA_mapping
This issue is also affecting newer/larger hard drives. And these without a doubt have 4kb sectors but everything in opensuse shows 512 bytes!
The _drives_ don't tell their real sector sizes!
# /sbin/hdparm -I /dev/sdb [..] Model Number: SAMSUNG HD204UI [..] LBA48 user addressable sectors: 3907029168 Logical Sector size: 512 bytes Physical Sector size: 512 bytes
This is what the disk tells via the ATA interface. And yes, that is a disk with 4K physical sectors, which is why I partitioned aligned to 4K. There is just no way for Yast or any other tool to know. One could create a database of 4K-disks reporting 512B sectors though.
Right that's what I said basically and hence my proposal that Yast shows disks in the relevant unit of "sectors" and not the antiquated useless term of "cylinders." If you know your disk needs to be aligned to X size sectors you can calculate it yourself and set it up with no hassle.
But in the current arragement, since there's no universal formula to convert cylinders to sectors and yast only shows the former, you need to e.g. boot a live CD, create your partitions with some clunky 3rd party tool and then do your installation.
If you'll post the openFATE link to your proposal, I'll add my vote.
Greg
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