Hi !
I’ve recently bought a 1.5TB EARS drive, unaware of the 4kB sector issue. Glad I found this thread.
I tried the fdisk approach, followed by creating partitions in gparted but that left me with the partition starting at 63, which I assume is no good.
I then tried the parted approach, which meant I had one big partition, starting at 40. So far so good. But that’s not the layout I wanted, so I fired up gparted to modify the partition(s) to my requirements (2x 15GB, 1x for the rest).
I then ran into problems:
a) gparted didn’t let me create the first partition as 15GB, 22GB was the minimum. Why ?
b) Went ahead and created 1x22GB, 1x15GB, I for the rest.
When finished I noticed that the first partition now started at 63. I’m assuming that using gparted is the issue. Does this mean I have to use parted to create the partitions, making sure I specify start sectors divisible by 8 ? Why 8 ?
Thanks for any help.
