gparted makes it a lot easier. If you want to be sure of the sector size look for an st... number then go to seagate.com and get a datasheet.
2048 seems small for a 1 TB drive, my 128 GB SD card uses 4096. Actually I'm not sure, this is a 1 TB Seagate and disklabel says: type: ESDI disk: ESDI/IDE disk label: ST31000340AS duid: f1f9d8681047d339 flags: bytes/sector: 512 sectors/track: 63 tracks/cylinder: 255 sectors/cylinder: 16065 cylinders: 121601 total sectors: 1953525168 Then again the drive geometry can be messed with somewhat like to keep numbers fitting in certain variable types. 63 sectors/track and 255 tracks/cylinder are suspect since they're 2^6 and 2^8. Divide one by 2, multiply another by 2, etc. Preferably before formatting then stick with it. Bytes/sector could be fair game. On 9/27/17, Vagrant Cascadian <vagr...@debian.org> wrote: > On 2017-09-26, Gene Heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> wrote: >> Looks like I need a disk guru! >> >> I have a new 1 TB disk I just bought, one of Seagates little skinny backup >> things. > > Wouldn't this be more appropriate for debian-u...@lists.debian.org? > > live well, > vagrant > -- ------------- No, I won't call it "climate change", do you have a "reality problem"? - AB1JX Impeach Impeach Impeach Impeach Impeach Impeach Impeach Impeach
