On Wednesday 21 January 2015 16:29:45 Bob Proulx did opine And Gene did reply: > Gene Heskett wrote: > > Bob Proulx did opine > > > > > You seem to believe that the Wheezy debian-installer does not > > > handle the new Advanced Format 4k sectors. However I use it all > > > of the time with 4k sectors and it works fine. There is no known > > > problem using the Wheezy debian-installer to install onto AF 4k > > > sector devices. > > > > > > Sorry but I believe you are mistaken on this issue. If you find > > > the debian-install mishandling 4k sector devices please file a bug > > > report with sufficient information to debug the problem. > > > > Go ahead and install its way, then run an fdisk -l and read the > > result, confirmed by quite slow readings from hdparm -tT on the > > drive you just installed it to. > > What problem are you seeing? Details? > > I might suggest that fdisk hasn't kept up and isn't the best tool for > the task these days. It may be getting confused by the newer > partition tables. This may be causing it to emit bad information. > > In many ways I don't like parted but I think it handles the new > formats best. > > parted /dev/sda unit s print > > > URL for the bug reporter? > > Here you go. > > https://www.debian.org/Bugs/
Thanks. gene@coyote:~/Downloads$ parted /dev/sdb unit s print WARNING: You are not superuser. Watch out for permissions. Model: ATA ST1000VX000-1CU1 (scsi) Disk /dev/sdb: 1953525168s Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/4096B Partition Table: gpt Number Start End Size File system Name Flags 1 16384s 112656383s 112640000s ext4 boot 2 112656384s 215056383s 102400000s linux-swap(v1) 3 215062155s 317460464s 102398310s ext4 4 317460465s 1953520064s 1636059600s ext4 > Bob Which it is not complaining about. BUT that is not how I spent an hour partitioning it last night, zero resemblance, partitions 2 & 3 were specced with 50G's for swap and /, the last, big one is /home. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> US V Castleman, SCOTUS, Mar 2014 is grounds for Impeaching SCOTUS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/201501212036.11363.ghesk...@wdtv.com