Partitioning Tools & Disk Types
by shirase from LinuxQuestions.org on (#6GM0W)
Does anyone know if gptfdisk checks for optimal alignment or if I would need to use parted after?
I found an option in gptfdisk to set alignment but it expects me to set the alignment as where parted kinda just werks.
Code:# http://jdebp.eu./FGA/disc-partition-alignment.html
parted --align 'optimal' "/dev/x" ;
sgdisk --set-alignment=xparted is ancient compared to gptfdisk. Can someone explain this?
"gdisk performs partition alignment automatically on a 2048 512-byte sector (1 MiB) block size base which should be compatible with all Advanced Format HDDs and the vast majority of SSDs if not all."
I read this on the arch wiki but i'm still unclear on this.
Does anyone know if gdisk will be able to align correctly for 512e disks as well as advanced format disks?
I have a couple old laptops with 512e disks and I feel like I might need to know this.
I found an option in gptfdisk to set alignment but it expects me to set the alignment as where parted kinda just werks.
Code:# http://jdebp.eu./FGA/disc-partition-alignment.html
parted --align 'optimal' "/dev/x" ;
sgdisk --set-alignment=xparted is ancient compared to gptfdisk. Can someone explain this?
"gdisk performs partition alignment automatically on a 2048 512-byte sector (1 MiB) block size base which should be compatible with all Advanced Format HDDs and the vast majority of SSDs if not all."
I read this on the arch wiki but i'm still unclear on this.
Does anyone know if gdisk will be able to align correctly for 512e disks as well as advanced format disks?
I have a couple old laptops with 512e disks and I feel like I might need to know this.