[mythtv-users] Need advice re: expand/replacement storage

[Craig Huff]

On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 5:07 PM, Simon Hobson <linux at thehobsons.co.uk> wrote:
> Craig Huff wrote:
>> I am considering adding a 2TB WD disk to my system (WD2002FAEX).
>
> Then the partitioning problems do not apply. As already mentioned, you should start your partitions at a multiple of 8 'sectors', while fdisk will default to starting at 63. Since I think all large drives now use 4k sectors on the disk, such a mislignment affects performance.
> --
> Simon Hobson

Simon,

Thanks for the input.

Sigh... No matter how much I try to keep up, there's always something I missed.

If I understand you correctly, I will want to make my partition start
at sector 64, right?

Since I normally use gparted to partition disks I add to an
established system, how do I make it do that, or do I need to learn to
use a new tool (perhaps there's an option I hadn't noticed to use GPT
rather than MBR?)?  Any suggestions (tools or methods) appreciated.

Craig.