cylinders/sectors, fdisk & co....

[smartmeister]

Hi fvdw/jocko,

Recently i've been reinstalling my nwsp1 from scratch with the fvdw-sl-10-1 base release.
Recreating the partitions (as describded in the pdf) is easy as a piece of cake, but peoples could get stuck with this surprisingly new fdisk display method (at least to me):

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Command (m for help): n
Partition type:
   p   primary (0 primary, 0 extended, 4 free)
   e   extended
Select (default p): p
Partition number (1-4, default 1): 1
First sector (2048-488397167, default 2048):

Your HOWTO talks about cylinders, but some recent fdisk uses different units. here's the reason :

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WARNING: cylinders as display units are deprecated. Use command 'u' to
         change units to sectors.


so in order to be able to work with cylinders again, i issued the following command :

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sudo fdisk -u=cylinders /dev/sda

that's it, have a nice day :-D

[bgaul]

I have had the same problem first. So in my opinion it would be good to write also the size of the partitions.

[MacEdwin]

I am having the exact same issue, and can't get around it.

Is there a reference table to the newbe instruction manual to have the sector sizes, instead of cylinders.

I tried the command, but it does not work for me.

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WARNING: cylinders as display units are deprecated. Use command 'u' to change units to sectors.
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I don't know how to proceed. I found a table on the forum, but that is for 2tb, i have a lacie NS1 1 TB

thanks for your help!
Edwin

[fvdw]

just type "u" as command in fdisk and it wil switch to cylinders..very easy. It will work despite the remark that it is deprecated

But we will make a table for sectors as well