>> No, the plan is to keep logical sector sizes at 512 for >> compatibility. > > Which/whose plan?
The bigsector.org initiative's plan, which includes the big hard-disk vendors. Again, please see their site, they have a bunch of content there. > For some disks (ipods I think, and some CDs), sector_size > is already being set to 2048. Indeed, but not ATA hard drives. > :) > I know that very well. I'm in the process of fixing it (big job!). > Nearly everything breaks via stack-smashing with sector_size > 512. I did a bit of work on this back then, but I left it far from completion. Leslie _______________________________________________ parted-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/parted-devel

