From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Benjammin2068 Subject: Best tool to partition Drives with new sector geometry - (WAS: Need Help with crashed RAID5 (that was rebuilding and then had SATA error on another drive)) Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2016 12:13:47 -0500 Message-ID: References: <215fd175-65b6-e24b-338f-0c44ae030573@websitemanagers.com.au> <57BBDA5B.3020706@gmail.com> <57BBDC15.5030301@gmail.com> <57BC61F7.8070102@gmail.com> <57BE450B.4030700@gmail.com> <56e86db5-456d-e9c1-339d-ba8903fe5dde@websitemanagers.com.au> <57BE52BC.6040908@gmail.com> <933228e0-bce4-ffad-f48d-034bf89bc07f@websitemanagers.com.au> <57BF9965.1020403@gmail.com> <57C0856D.8050209@youngman.org.uk> <57C32D8E.9030102@gmail.com> <3b008fb0-1fb3-f12f-d973-3657de6e6923@websitemanagers.com.au> <57C38EF5.7020005@gmail.com> <57C41A47.5050506@youngman.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <57C41A47.5050506@youngman.org.uk> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids In a followup question to my arrays, I have a question about the new WDs with the larger sector size geometry but support 512B sectors. I bought some WD Reds (WD10EFRX) drives. When I let the linux "Disk Utility" (palimpest <- who the heck named that anyway?) do the RAID management with a new drive, it partitions on cyls and not sectors. So it makes a partition and then complains to me it's off by 512bytes which could affect performance. Gee. Thanks. So I can use g/parted -- or fdisk.... but I thought I'd get any suggestions for the preferred tool and any pitfalls to watch out for. Thanks, -Ben