Re: Calculating optimal disk partitions

2013-05-10 Thread craig
On Wednesday, May 8, 2013 11:26, "Bob Proulx" said: > It might be fruitful to open a question about parted on their upstream > mailing list. > > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-parted > > http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/ > > Bob Hi Bob, I did as you suggested, and it was h

Re: Calculating optimal disk partitions

2013-05-08 Thread craig
On Wednesday, May 8, 2013 11:26, "Bob Proulx" said: > cr...@gtek.biz wrote: >> I just find it frustrating that the partitioner would issue >> a warning that has so little supporting documentation. > > It might be fruitful to open a question about parted on their upstream > mailing list. > > h

Re: Calculating optimal disk partitions

2013-05-08 Thread Bob Proulx
cr...@gtek.biz wrote: > I just find it frustrating that the partitioner would issue > a warning that has so little supporting documentation. It might be fruitful to open a question about parted on their upstream mailing list. https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-parted http://www.gnu.o

Re: Calculating optimal disk partitions

2013-05-08 Thread craig
On Tuesday, May 7, 2013 19:50, "Bob Proulx" said: > cr...@gtek.biz wrote: >> cr...@gtek.biz said: >> I found a thread that mentioned the values should be multiples of >> 2048 for advanced format disks, which this ST31000524AS is, if I'm > > The ST31000524AS is not advanced format. It uses tra

Re: Calculating optimal disk partitions

2013-05-07 Thread Bob Proulx
cr...@gtek.biz wrote: > cr...@gtek.biz said: > I found a thread that mentioned the values should be multiples of > 2048 for advanced format disks, which this ST31000524AS is, if I'm The ST31000524AS is not advanced format. It uses traditional 512 byte sectors. I have several of that particular m

RE: Calculating optimal disk partitions

2013-05-07 Thread craig
On Monday, May 6, 2013 08:39, cr...@gtek.biz said: > This 1TB disk reports both physical and logical sector sizes of 512 bytes > each, > and is currently partitioned with one extended partition that is made up of > the > entire disk. It has three existing logical partitions, and parted tells me

Calculating optimal disk partitions

2013-05-06 Thread craig
Good morning all, I am trying to add a partition to the unused space on a hard drive. Using parted, I keep getting "Warning: The resulting partition is not properly aligned for best performance." There is not a whole lot of explanation out there that explains the calculations necessary to deter