Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2012 14:13:29 -0800 From: "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg@tristatelogic.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Advanced Format Drive ? Message-ID: <4153.1352844809@tristatelogic.com> In-Reply-To: <50A2002B.9040003@qeng-ho.org>
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In message <50A2002B.9040003@qeng-ho.org>, Arthur Chance <freebsd@qeng-ho.org> 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.)
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