Re: Beating a dead horse

["William A. Mahaffey III" <wam%hiwaay.net@localhost>]

On 11/24/15 11:02, Felix Deichmann wrote:
> Am 24.11.2015 um 15:32 schrieb William A. Mahaffey III:
> > Physical sector size: 4096 bytes
>                         ^^^^
>
> As Manuel already stated, you have disks with 4K sectors.
>
> > Could you expand a bit further on those tools :-) ?
>
> All I know is from reading about it, it's called "Acronis Alignment
> Tool", also available from certain drive manufacturers for free.
>
> > Are they NetBSD ported ?
>
> It comes as a stand-alone ISO image you can boot from when burnt to a
> CD/DVD. No port necessary. It will rewrite your disk(s), so can take a 
> huge amount of time.
>
> > CLI tools ?
>
> No, it seems to have a graphical UI.
>
> > Work on booted/running drives or need to be invoked before/during
> > boot ?
>
> You will have to boot it instead of your favorite OS. :)
>
> The main problem I see is that the tool could be limited to FAT/NTFS, 
> i. e. the Windows world, and it will probably not work well with 
> NetBSD's concept of disk structuring. But you would have to find out.
>
> You can probably save a lot of time, tries and headache by doing a 
> fresh installation of your server with correct alignment and block 
> sizes... :-|
>
> Felix


Yeah, I was/am pretty well resigned to that .... Oh well, live & learn. 
I presume the various fdisk options superpose properly, i.e. I can 
specify alignment to use as well as edit the partitions ? We'll see, I 
guess ....


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