Sector size of 4096 bytes (not 512)
Poul-Henning Kamp
phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Tue Aug 26 12:45:56 UTC 2008
In message <86zln011dz.fsf at ds4.des.no>, =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= wr
ites:
>"Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk at phk.freebsd.dk> writes:
>> [to install on a disk with 4096-byte sectors]
>> In the disk menu where you create filesystems, you will need to use the
>> set the newfs arguments (is it 'N' in the menu ?) to
>> -b 32768 -f 4096
>
>Doesn't newfs figure this out on its own, based on the parameters
>reported by ata / cam?
Ohh, actually it might...
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