On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 2:13 PM, Nikos Chantziaras <rea...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm getting a 2TB drive which uses 4kB sectors instead of 512 byte ones. I > suppose by now everything will "just work" and the various tools will now by > default create correctly aligned partitions? > >
I guess it depends on what tools you use to create partitions but I believe the stable version of fdisk does now align to 4k by default. Just make sure the starting address is divisible by 8 and you should be good to go no matter what tools you use. HTH, Mark