From owner-freebsd-geom@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 28 22:14:10 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-geom@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [8.8.178.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8AAC4418 for ; Tue, 28 May 2013 22:14:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lev@FreeBSD.org) Received: from onlyone.friendlyhosting.spb.ru (onlyone.friendlyhosting.spb.ru [46.4.40.135]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 520E8DEF for ; Tue, 28 May 2013 22:14:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lion.home.serebryakov.spb.ru (unknown [IPv6:2001:470:923f:1:bd1b:cc3:22ae:789f]) (Authenticated sender: lev@serebryakov.spb.ru) by onlyone.friendlyhosting.spb.ru (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 6BCB24AC1C for ; Wed, 29 May 2013 02:14:00 +0400 (MSK) Date: Wed, 29 May 2013 02:13:56 +0400 From: Lev Serebryakov Organization: FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <234552188.20130529021356@serebryakov.spb.ru> To: freebsd-geom@FreeBSD.org Subject: Could gpart align MBR primary partiton at 4K? MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list Reply-To: lev@FreeBSD.org List-Id: GEOM-specific discussions and implementations List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 28 May 2013 22:14:10 -0000 Hello, Freebsd-geom. I'm trying to format external Extended Format drive to FAT32 under FreeBSD 9.1-STABLE I've created MBR scheme, but when I try to create primary partition I get: > sudo gpart add -t fat32 -a 4k da0 da0s1 added, but partition is not aligned on 4096 bytes > Why? According to "Using Advanced disks for old OSes like WinCP" guides it is possible to 4K-align MBR partition, but all these guides are windows-centric... -- // Black Lion AKA Lev Serebryakov