gpart add -a 4096 vs 4k
Irjohn Junus
i.junus at gmail.com
Wed Jun 13 10:09:07 UTC 2012
Hello,
Relatively new to FreeBSD and learning, I'm trying to partition my HDD and
align it to 4k sector.
I do apologize if this has been answered before, I have Googled and read
gpart(8) man page to no joy. Can anyone please advice why gpart add '-a
4096' doesn't yield the same result with '-a 4k'? Many thanks and captures
are below.
Regards,
Ronjns
#gpart add -t freebsd-zfs -l hdd0 *-a 4096* da0
da0p1 added
# gpart show da0
=> 34 3907029101 da0 GPT (1.8T)
34 4062 - free - (2M)
*4096 3907022848* 1 freebsd-zfs (1.8T)
3907026944 2191 - free - (1.1M)
# gpart add -t freebsd-zfs -l hdd0 *-a 4k* da0
da0p1 added
# gpart show da0
=> 34 3907029101 da0 GPT (1.8T)
34 6 - free - (3.0k)
*40 3907029088* 1 freebsd-zfs (1.8T)
3907029128 7 - free - (3.5k)
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