On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 10:43:29AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Wednesday 27 September 2017 08:46:30 Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > > > On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 08:42:08AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > Do we have a disk partitioner that does understand a physical sector > > > size of any power of 2? gparted is out as this machine does not yet > > > have an x server installed, so I need a commandline tool. > > > > > > Suggestions will be investigated, thank you. > > > > You don't mention which tool(s) you've already attempted, but have you > > looked at parted? > > > parted and fdisk, parted was I think mentioned in what you snipped, but > fdisk doesn't know how to even check alignment. (that I know of) The > last time I used fdisk I got write rates under 15 megs/second on a > sata-ii interface. I backed it up and fixed it with gparted and its now > doing about 120 megs/second. > You mentioned gparted, which is a graphical version of parted. Since gparted worked for you, I figured the non-graphical parted might do what you need. Personally, I have had good success specifying arbitrary geometries with parted from the command-line.
> Secondary question. On efi setups, how much blank space in front of the > 1st partition is needed for that stuff on a terrabyte drive? Or is > there even a rule of thumb about that? > I thought only 1 MB was needed before the first partition, but I haven't messed with efi much. > Thanks Roberto. > No problem. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez
