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Re: Large Partition Disks Freezing



Matt Thomas <matt%3am-software.com@localhost> writes:

> On Apr 1, 2011, at 7:39 AM, Michael van Elst wrote:
>> mrrooster%gmail.com@localhost (Ian Clark) writes:
>>> dk0 at sd0: 5f8d4388-07b3-11e0-b632-a4badb35969c
>>> dk0: 25761939389 blocks at 34, type: ffs
>> 
>>> 34 seems an odd offset?
>> 
>> 34 ist standard, the disk starts with:
>> 
>> 1 sector PMBR
>> 1 sector GPT header
>> 32 sectors GPT table (or rather 16kByte).
>
> Give newer drives with 4KB sectors, that 32 should become 30 or 38...

What I've done on a WD "2T" drive that has 4K sectors is start at 64,
simply leaving 30 sectors unused.

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