Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 07:43:34 +0000 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: Sten Daniel Soersdal <netslists@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sector size of 4096 bytes (not 512) Message-ID: <35438.1219736614@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 26 Aug 2008 02:22:20 -0400." <48B3A11C.6030504@gmail.com>
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In message <48B3A11C.6030504@gmail.com>, Sten Daniel Soersdal writes: > >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 -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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