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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