From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 18 22:50:16 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 770B4106564A for ; Mon, 18 Jul 2011 22:50:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kob6558@gmail.com) Received: from mail-yi0-f54.google.com (mail-yi0-f54.google.com [209.85.218.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3EA6E8FC1C for ; Mon, 18 Jul 2011 22:50:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yic13 with SMTP id 13so1887991yic.13 for ; Mon, 18 Jul 2011 15:50:15 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=pGKHhvkug91dMisGQRwXX4W5EXWWgmjeMF7jaWiX7sU=; b=oAgjyK7m0/500I+SUm4rlILFcBvPJbsg4Ahit9wgelLRaRivkOPm1770o/8IJkeIM1 zDwWA/lCH4IbbZmqlh4/y3b2NxDt9ZeNwYPxDrJ4OyA7/iO/rm8fK7EnYsDl06O6Nosh bEEYWWiQNNg3ENuRZpS03AL9bF+Jged8kidlM= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.150.210.2 with SMTP id i2mr1455989ybg.312.1311029415417; Mon, 18 Jul 2011 15:50:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.151.27.21 with HTTP; Mon, 18 Jul 2011 15:50:15 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2011 15:50:15 -0700 Message-ID: From: Kevin Oberman To: "freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Stable" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Subject: Status of support for 4KB disk sectors X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2011 22:50:16 -0000 I just want to check on the status of 4K sector support in FreeBSD. I read a long thread on the topic from a while back and it looks like I might hit some issues if I'm not REALLY careful. Since I will be keeping the existing Windows installation, I need to be sure that I can set up the disk correctly without screwing up Windows 7. I was planning on just DDing the W7 slice over, but I am not sure how well this would play with GPT. Or should I not try to use GPT at all? I'd like to as this laptop spreads Windows 7 over two slices and adds a third for the recovery system, leaving only one for FreeBSD and I'd like to put my files in a separate slice. GPT would offer that fifth slice. I have read the handbook and don't see any reference to 4K sectors and only a one-liner about gpart(8) and GPT. Oncew I get this all figured out, I'll see about writing an update about this as GPT looks like the way to go in e future. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer - Retired E-mail: kob6558@gmail.com