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 installed, so I need a commandline tool. > > > > Suggestions will be investigated, thank you. > > You don't mention which tool(s) you've already attempted, but have you > looked at parted? > parted and fdisk, parted was I think mentioned in what you snipped, but fdisk doesn't know how to even check alignment. (that I know of) The last time I used fdisk I got write rates under 15 megs/second on a sata-ii interface. I backed it up and fixed it with gparted and its now doing about 120 megs/second.
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? Thanks Roberto. > Regards, > > -Roberto 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>
