[plug] WD-EARS 2TB drives and linux?

[Daniel Pittman]

Andrew Furey <andrew.furey at gmail.com> writes:
> On 26/08/2010, Daniel Pittman <daniel at rimspace.net> wrote:
>>  Anyway, you can check your partitioning by running as root:

[...]

> The short, short version is that the partitions need to be positioned
> so that their starting sector is divisible by 8 (8 x 512B = 4KB). In
> my case, I have partitions starting at sectors 64, 1044288, and
> 98719488.
>
> And yes, it does increase performance doing it right - in my case the
> mke2fs etc time was halved...

It really makes that much difference?  I bow to your real-world experience,
since I avoided the disks for other reasons, and now have two causes to be
glad of that. :)

        Daniel

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