On 2013-12-06 11:55 (GMT+0200) ellanios82 composed:
- i have a new 1TB Seagate Barracude SATA HDD which am trying to partition but meet probs that all 4 partitions shown by fdisk as "does not start on physical sector boundary' .
i tried to solve by googling for a solution and after first making my 4 partitions with cfdisk, and meeting ' not start on physical sector boundary' , deleted all, and tried again with gparted.
- Still have this problem . . . How to fix ?
Start all over and use a tool that automatically keeps partitions sized to conform with 4kb sector disks, e.g. any of the tools using parted as their engine. Sectors of 512 bytes need to be grouped in eights during calculation of partition sizes and partition start sectors. Traditional PC BIOS geometry of 240 or 255 heads and 63 sectors is incompatible with maximum performance from 4kb sector disks. If you want to use an older tool you have to understand that the first partition on a BIOS disk must begin after a gap following the MBR that permits the first sector of that partition to start on the first byte of a 4kb physical sector, and the same for every subsequent partition start. You can ignore the warnings you've seen, but it will cost you a needless performance penalty. http://www.seagate.com/tech-insights/advanced-format-4k-sector-hard-drives-m... -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org