https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=504128
--- Comment #4 from Andrius Štikonas <[email protected]> --- (In reply to Shmerl from comment #3) > (In reply to Andrius Štikonas from comment #2) > > > > At the moment all my drives have 512b sectors, perhaps if my next drive has > > large sectors, I can take a look. > > NVMe SSDs at least often have options for sector size. For instance I have > SK hynix Platinum P41. Sector size can be checked like this: > > sudo nvme id-ns -H /dev/nvme0n1 | grep 'Relative Performance' > LBA Format 0 : Metadata Size: 0 bytes - Data Size: 512 bytes - > Relative Performance: 0 Best > LBA Format 1 : Metadata Size: 0 bytes - Data Size: 4096 bytes - > Relative Performance: 0 Best (in use) > > By default it was 512 for me. I set it to 4KiB like this: > > sudo nvme format --lbaf=1 /dev/nvme0n1 > > You can check if you drive has such option too, even if it's not using it > out of the box. Note that changing sector size deletes all data on the > drive, so do it with a spare one that you can experiment with. Yeah, I already checked and unfortunately the only drive that had that option was is my root fs drive, so tricky to convert for reasons you mentioned. But I'll keep it in mind for my next purchases... -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
