From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 13 22:13:30 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 092E2230 for ; Tue, 13 Nov 2012 22:13:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rfg@tristatelogic.com) Received: from outgoing.tristatelogic.com (segfault.tristatelogic.com [69.62.255.118]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D63968FC0C for ; Tue, 13 Nov 2012 22:13:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from segfault-nmh-helo.tristatelogic.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by segfault.tristatelogic.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 444465081B for ; Tue, 13 Nov 2012 14:13:29 -0800 (PST) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Advanced Format Drive ? In-Reply-To: <50A2002B.9040003@qeng-ho.org> Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2012 14:13:29 -0800 Message-ID: <4153.1352844809@tristatelogic.com> From: "Ronald F. Guilmette" X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2012 22:13:30 -0000 In message <50A2002B.9040003@qeng-ho.org>, Arthur Chance wrote: >According to the manual as of 9.0-RELEASE the default fragment and block >sizes for newfs are 4k and 32k, so provided your partitions/slices are >4k aligned everything Should Just Work. Before 9.0 fragments and blocks >were 2k and 16k which doesn't play so well with 4k drives. Thank you Arthur for pointing this out. This comes as welcome news, since now, it would seem, I won't have to get down a grunge around trying to run the command line versions of fdisk, bsdlabel, and newfs. (Normally, I prefer doing most things from the command line, but initializing new disks for use with FreeBSD is one of the rare exceptional cases where I prefer to have a bit of a GUI wrapper that's double checking to make sure that I don't do anything completely goofy.)