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Date:      Thu, 08 Apr 2010 12:30:01 -0700
From:      Marcel Moolenaar <xcllnt@mac.com>
To:        Alexey Tarasov <me@lexasoft.ru>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: gpart and sector size
Message-ID:  <A671D987-6884-42B0-A87C-13FC911F8490@mac.com>
In-Reply-To: <1A417529-F467-4411-970A-3FF41080AC61@lexasoft.ru>
References:  <1A417529-F467-4411-970A-3FF41080AC61@lexasoft.ru>

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On Apr 8, 2010, at 6:06 AM, Alexey Tarasov wrote:

> Hello.
> 
> There is only one possibility to change sector size of physical disk (gnop -S 4096 ...).
> May be it is possible to add such possibility to gpart? e.g. gpart create -S 4096 -t gpt ad0?
> It will help all unlucky WD Advanced Format disks users. :-D

A better approach is to have tunables for geom_disk to do this. This should absolutely
not be part of a partitioning tool. It violates everything there is to violate AFAICT.
FYI,

-- 
Marcel Moolenaar
xcllnt@mac.com






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