Re: 4k sector sizes on new disks?

[David Laight <david%l8s.co.uk@localhost>]

On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 08:38:46PM +0000, John Klos wrote:
> Hi, all,
> 
> Does newfs automatically choose 4k fragment sizes for new drives with 4k 
> sectors?

No.
It is probably quite difficult to tell (in newfs) so maybe defaulting
to 4k frags, 32k blocks might be an option for sufficiently large disks.

I recently changed fdisk (but not sysinst) to default to aligning partitions
on 1MB boundaries - rather than cylinder boundaries (for large disks).

        David

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