Advanced Format Drive ?

[Ronald F. Guilmette]

In message <50A2002B.9040003 at qeng-ho.org>, 
Arthur Chance <freebsd at qeng-ho.org> wrote:

>According to the manual as of 9.0-RELEASE the default fragment and block 
>sizes for newfs are 4k and 32k, so provided your partitions/slices are 
>4k aligned everything Should Just Work. Before 9.0 fragments and blocks 
>were 2k and 16k which doesn't play so well with 4k drives.

Thank you Arthur for pointing this out.  This comes as welcome news,
since now, it would seem, I won't have to get down a grunge around
trying to run the command line versions of fdisk, bsdlabel, and newfs.
(Normally, I prefer doing most things from the command line, but
initializing new disks for use with FreeBSD is one of the rare
exceptional cases where I prefer to have a bit of a GUI wrapper that's
double checking to make sure that I don't do anything completely
goofy.)