[parted-devel] 4K LBA workarounds for GPT

Brian C. Lane bcl at redhat.com
Tue Oct 16 22:49:55 BST 2018


On Mon, Sep 24, 2018 at 11:06:19PM +0200, Bård Tesaker wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I struggel with GPT on disks with 4K logical blocks. The header and parition
> descriptors is scattered due to LBA adressing. This render the GPT
> inaccessible/useless if the disk is connected to a controller that does not
> support 4K, and on disk images.
> 
> Is it possible create a workaround for this by specifying input and output
> LBA size and/or by autodetection (like looking for GPT at LBA 8)?

I don't think there's anything we can do about this use case.

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Brian C. Lane (PST8PDT)



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