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ernov n00b
Joined: 28 May 2010 Posts: 55
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Posted: Tue Aug 24, 2010 7:23 pm Post subject: |
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Pigeon769, Shining Arcanine, you've certainly reached two extremes on one continuum But the truth is usually on the "gold center".
I'm in the need of some practical advice how to treat my new F40 Corsair disk to use its power and not to screw up things on the beginning.
It looks like this for now:
Code: | Disk /dev/sdb: 40.0 GB, 40018599936 bytes
64 heads, 32 sectors/track, 38164 cylinders, total 78161328 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000
Disk /dev/sdb doesn't contain a valid partition table |
Shining Arcanine, how would you know what are erase block boundaries for it?
What switches of fdisk would I use to partition my new drive? |
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Shining Arcanine Veteran
Joined: 24 Sep 2009 Posts: 1110
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Posted: Wed Aug 25, 2010 1:06 am Post subject: |
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ernov wrote: | Pigeon769, Shining Arcanine, you've certainly reached two extremes on one continuum But the truth is usually on the "gold center".
I'm in the need of some practical advice how to treat my new F40 Corsair disk to use its power and not to screw up things on the beginning.
It looks like this for now:
Code: | Disk /dev/sdb: 40.0 GB, 40018599936 bytes
64 heads, 32 sectors/track, 38164 cylinders, total 78161328 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000
Disk /dev/sdb doesn't contain a valid partition table |
Shining Arcanine, how would you know what are erase block boundaries for it?
What switches of fdisk would I use to partition my new drive? |
There really is nothing special about doing this. You can just set fdisk to display sectors and then start partitions at n % 1024 = 0 where n is the sector number. As long as you do that, you are fine. Alternatively, you could toggle off the DOS compatibility mode, which will do Windows 7-style partitioning, which I think is a bit wasteful (you lose 1MB of space at the start of the drive), but that works too. |
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ernov n00b
Joined: 28 May 2010 Posts: 55
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Posted: Mon Sep 13, 2010 11:55 pm Post subject: |
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OK, what do you think of this (sorry for localized output but the essence should be clear):
Code: | Dysk /dev/sdb: 40.0 GB, bajtów: 40018599936
głowic: 32, sektorów/ścieżkę: 32, cylindrów: 76329, w sumie sektorów: 78161328
Jednostka = sektorów, czyli 1 * 512 = 512 bajtów
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/dev/sdb1 1024 20973567 10486272 83 Linux
/dev/sdb2 20973568 41946111 10486272 83 Linux
/dev/sdb3 41946112 73404415 15729152 83 Linux
/dev/sdb4 73404416 77599743 2097664 83 Linux |
Is it aligned properly? |
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