[parted-devel] Parted and usage with larger sector sizes

[H. Peter Anvin]

xerces8 wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Sorry, but parted appears to not support sectors sized other than 512 bytes.
> The FAQ just says, that it will align the partitions to the physical sector size.
> But it will still use 512 byte sized sectors.
> 
> See this recent email from Jim Meyering (look for the string "512") :
> (here is the relevant part : "you're trying to use a disk with
> sector_size > 512.  Converting parted to work with such sector
> sizes is a big job, and will requirea significant widespread changes.")
> 

Realistically, a *LOT* of software will not work with a logical sector 
size of more than 512.  However, with all partititions suitably aligned 
(min 4K, and probably more like 64-1024K these days) you should still be 
able to get large and hopefully aligned I/O out of the OS.

	-hpa