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