* Thomas Bächler <thomas@archlinux.org> [21.04.2010 09:41]:
Am 21.04.2010 09:34, schrieb Jan de Groot:
On Tue, 2010-04-20 at 20:52 -0400, Caleb Cushing wrote:
has anyone installed arch on one of these drives? thinking about buying a pair and running them mirrored... but not sure if everything will be working optimal. note: since I'll have to migrate off an existing drive I can use the tools installed on that to partition it first. Is there anything I should know first?
You will have to align partitions on a 4K boundary, performance will be miserable without that. I think parted is the best tool to do partitioning in this case, as parted supports aligning.
I think the very very latest util-linux-ng will have fdisk/cfdisk that'll handle it just fine.
I can second that, I don't have Arch installed on a 4k drive but I have an external drive, which I partitioned with fdisk -c -u /dev/sdX and there's no speed drop at all, so you can use this command line without any worries