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To: Sten Daniel Soersdal <netslists@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Sector size of 4096 bytes (not 512) 
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In message <48B3A11C.6030504@gmail.com>, Sten Daniel Soersdal writes:
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>Does anyone know if i might run into any surprises if my hdd has 4096 
>byte sized sectors and not the regular 512, it is low-level formatted 
>that way.

That's no problem, as long as the sectorsize is a power of two, larger
than or equal to 512, you should have no trouble.

>I want to run a regular FreeBSD (v7) installation on it for a machine 
>that goes into production relatively soon after that.

In the disk menu where you create filesystems, you will need to use the
set the newfs arguments (is it 'N' in the menu ?) to
	-b 32768 -f 4096

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