On Wed 27 Sep 2017 at 13:14:41 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote:
[…]
> Here's what I found that worked after wiping the part table out:
> fdisk
> o
> w
>
> which made and wrote an empty dos part table.
> then
> sfdisk /dev/sda
> , 1G
> , 8G
> ,
> write
>
> Which made a 1G boot partition, an 8G destine
Hi,
Gene Heskett's parted wrote:
> > > Start? 163,840B
> > > End? 167,772,160B
> > > Error: The maximum head value is 254.
i wrote:
> > I think it takes the commas for a CHS addrss and the "772" for heads.
> > https://www.gnu.org/software/parted/manual/html_node/unit.html
> I don't recall that
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.
>
Gene
You might try the cfdisk partit
On Wednesday 27 September 2017 13:25:06 Michael Stone wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 11:32:31AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> >Oh? The last time I used fdisk I wound up with writes under 15
> >megs/second, and read of about 21 megs/second. Fixed it so it was
> >aligned, and its now around 120 meg
On Wednesday 27 September 2017 12:03:12 Thomas Schmitt wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Gene Heskett's parted wrote:
> > Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/4096B
>
> Wasn't that 2048 bytes per physical sector, last time ?
yes, thats the figures quote elsewhere here, which came from the
discovery stanza in dme
On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 11:32:31AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
Oh? The last time I used fdisk I wound up with writes under 15
megs/second, and read of about 21 megs/second. Fixed it so it was
aligned, and its now around 120 megs/second both ways.
And that was presumably a very long time ago. Cur
On Wednesday 27 September 2017 11:28:53 Pascal Hambourg wrote:
> Le 27/09/2017 à 16:43, Gene Heskett a écrit :
> > Secondary question. On efi setups, how much blank space in front of
> > the 1st partition is needed for that stuff on a terrabyte drive?
>
> None.
> That space is not used in EFI setu
On Wednesday 27 September 2017 10:57:24 Roberto C. Sánchez wrote:
> 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 part
On Wed 27 Sep 2017 at 11:32:31 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Wednesday 27 September 2017 09:09:26 Pascal Hambourg wrote:
>
> > Le 27/09/2017 à 14:42, Gene Heskett a écrit :
> > > [ 2404.664052] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 1953525167 512-byte logical blocks:
> > > (1.00 TB/932 GiB)
> > > [ 2404.676277] s
Hi,
Gene Heskett's parted wrote:
> Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/4096B
Wasn't that 2048 bytes per physical sector, last time ?
> Start? 163,840B
> End? 167,772,160B
> Error
On Wednesday 27 September 2017 09:09:26 Pascal Hambourg wrote:
> Le 27/09/2017 à 14:42, Gene Heskett a écrit :
> > [ 2404.664052] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 1953525167 512-byte logical blocks:
> > (1.00 TB/932 GiB)
> > [ 2404.676277] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 2048-byte physical blocks
> >
> > But I've now spent se
Le 27/09/2017 à 16:43, Gene Heskett a écrit :
Secondary question. On efi setups, how much blank space in front of the
1st partition is needed for that stuff on a terrabyte drive?
None.
That space is not used in EFI setups. Instead the bootloaders are in a
regular EFI partition.
On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 10:43:29AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
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?
You're overthinking this. The defaults should work fin
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 o
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 in
Hi,
Gene Heskett wrote:
> > [ 2404.664052] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 1953525167 512-byte logical blocks: (1.00
> > TB/932 GiB)
> > [ 2404.676277] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 2048-byte physical blocks
Pascal Hambourg wrote:
> Don't bother with alignment.
As far as oldfashioned "cylinder" aligment is concerned: ce
Le 27/09/2017 à 14:42, Gene Heskett a écrit :
[ 2404.664052] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 1953525167 512-byte logical blocks:
(1.00 TB/932 GiB)
[ 2404.676277] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 2048-byte physical blocks
But I've now spent several hours trying to put the 1st of 3 partitions on
it with figures that satisfy
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 invest
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