9.x -- New Install -- serious partition misalignment

Ronald F. Guilmette rfg at tristatelogic.com
Tue Dec 11 00:11:44 UTC 2012



Apparently, I owe everyone an apology.

I found out (a bit too late) that the WD 1 TB "black" drive that had
come to me in sealed anti-static bag with a warning on it about
"Advanced Format" drives (and possible OS incompatability) was not
in fact itself an AF drive.  Rather it is a traditional drive with
512 byte sectors.

I tried doing a test install of FreeBSD 9.1-RC3 onto a different drive...
one that I am quite sure had the new AF 4KB physical blocks and sure enough,
all partitions were properly and automagically aligned on 4KB boundaries.

I have put in a request to cancel the PR that I had filed regarding this
issue.

My thanks for Nathan Whitehorn for his input and forbearance.


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