Greetings all; I just bought a 1TB disk, in a usb3 interface format, had a full disk ntfs partition on it. The machine its to be used on is an arm64 rockchip called a rock64. It looks like a pi killer and I intend to replace the 1GB of memory pi-3b with this 4GB of memory card.
This disk has a 2048 byte sector. From dmesg: [ 2401.645069] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Spinning up disk... [ 2402.650332] ...ready [ 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 parted's align-check, including calculation of values that result in mod(2048)=0. Nothing seems to satisfy parted. So I've come to the conclusion parted is broken for this size of physical sector. 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 investigated, thank you. 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>
