Re: So much for a wheezy install, massive fail
On Wednesday 21 January 2015 16:29:45 Bob Proulx did opine
And Gene did reply:
> Gene Heskett wrote:
> > Bob Proulx did opine
> >
> > > You seem to believe that the Wheezy debian-installer does not
> > > handle the new Advanced Format 4k sectors. However I use it all
> > > of the time with 4k sectors and it works fine. There is no known
> > > problem using the Wheezy debian-installer to install onto AF 4k
> > > sector devices.
> > >
> > > Sorry but I believe you are mistaken on this issue. If you find
> > > the debian-install mishandling 4k sector devices please file a bug
> > > report with sufficient information to debug the problem.
> >
> > Go ahead and install its way, then run an fdisk -l and read the
> > result, confirmed by quite slow readings from hdparm -tT on the
> > drive you just installed it to.
>
> What problem are you seeing? Details?
>
> I might suggest that fdisk hasn't kept up and isn't the best tool for
> the task these days. It may be getting confused by the newer
> partition tables. This may be causing it to emit bad information.
>
> In many ways I don't like parted but I think it handles the new
> formats best.
>
> parted /dev/sda unit s print
>
> > URL for the bug reporter?
>
> Here you go.
>
> https://www.debian.org/Bugs/
Thanks.
gene@coyote:~/Downloads$ parted /dev/sdb unit s print
WARNING: You are not superuser. Watch out for permissions.
Model: ATA ST1000VX000-1CU1 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sdb: 1953525168s
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/4096B
Partition Table: gpt
Number Start End Size File system Name Flags
1 16384s 112656383s 112640000s ext4 boot
2 112656384s 215056383s 102400000s linux-swap(v1)
3 215062155s 317460464s 102398310s ext4
4 317460465s 1953520064s 1636059600s ext4
> Bob
Which it is not complaining about. BUT that is not how I spent an hour
partitioning it last night, zero resemblance, partitions 2 & 3 were
specced with 50G's for swap and /, the last, big one is /home.
Cheers, Gene Heskett
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