On 7/30/2017 6:46 PM, Alicia Boya García wrote: > Hi. > > Is there any explanation to this GNU parted output? > > GNU Parted 3.2 > Using /dev/sde > Welcome to GNU Parted! Type 'help' to view a list of commands. > (parted) unit B > (parted) p > Model: Seagate M3 Portable (scsi) > Disk /dev/sde: 4000787029504B > Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/4096B > Partition Table: gpt > Disk Flags: > > Number Start End Size File system Name Flags > 1 1048576B 4000786153471B 4000785104896B ext4 > > (parted) align-check > alignment type(min/opt) [optimal]/minimal? > Partition number? 1 > 1 not aligned > > Why does it say it's not aligned? Both the the start and the end are > 1MB-aligned (and therefore trivially 4096B-aligned and 512B-aligned), am > I right?
Maybe your drive is advertising a different optimal alignment. What does /sys/block/sde/queue/optimal_io_size say?
