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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

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

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

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