Greetings; Looks like I need a disk guru!
I have a new 1 TB disk I just bought, one of Seagates little skinny backup things. Parted seems to be having a cow, as I deleted the default full disk ntfs partition easy enough, and now cannot create any new ones that are aligned. Consulting dmesg, I find it has 2048 byte logical blocks. From dmesg: (time since boot stripped) usb 5-1: new SuperSpeed USB device number 2 using xhci-hcd usb 5-1: New USB device found, idVendor=0bc2, idProduct=ab24 usb 5-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=2, Product=3, SerialNumber=1 usb 5-1: Product: BUP Slim BK usb 5-1: Manufacturer: Seagate usb 5-1: SerialNumber: NA9DMT6T usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage scsi host0: uas scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access Seagate BUP Slim BK 0304 PQ: 0 ANSI: 6 usbcore: registered new interface driver uas sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Spinning up disk... ...ready sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 1953525167 512-byte logical blocks: (1.00 TB/932 GiB) sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 2048-byte physical blocks sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 4f 00 00 00 sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA That raised my eyebrows a ways, familiar with the old standby 512, and 512/4096, but 512/2048? First such critter I've seen. Anyway I have speced the start and end inputs to mkpart in B, KB, kiB and GB and GiB, without making an aligned partition on this 2048 byte physical sector disk. If parted is broken for this size of physical sector, what do we have than can deal with it? Thanks disk guru's. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
