On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 12:30 AM, Yasha Karant <ykar...@csusb.edu> wrote: > > For reasons that are irrelevant to this discussion, we have ended up with a > number of new workstations with WD Advanced Format "green" 1.5 TByte drives. > We have been experiencing a number of difficulties that had to do with > partition boundaries, etc. After a bit of digging, I found: > > http://community.wdc.com/t5/Desktop/Problem-with-WD-Advanced-Format-drive-in-LINUX-WD15EARS/td-p/6395 > > Is anyone using a WD Advanced Format drive with SL 6? We are not and > probably will/can not use LVM, but rather standard ext 2, 3, or 4 > partitions, included the extended partition model. > > If you are using this type of drive, information on the specifics of the > formatting command(s) and syntax to use these WD drives would be > appreciated. Any link to a detailed document or URL would be appreciated.
For SSDs but relevant for "regular" disk partition alignment too: http://www.linuxfoundation.org/news-media/blogs/browse/2009/02/aligning-filesystems-ssd%E2%80%99s-erase-block-size
