<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div>Now I just need to figure out how to partition the new (2TB) disk that I was trying to work on in the first place. If I use gparted 0.9.0, I came up with two ways to partition it, but neither starts at sector 64, which I believe is where I need to start an optimized partition (yes/no?). If I tell it to align to MiB, it requires a minimum of 1 MiB free space before the partition and the resulting partition starts at sector 2048. If I tell it to align to cylinder boundaries, it will let me specifiy zero (0) free space and start with sector 0.<br>
<br></div>Since this disk is intended just to store video recordings on (this _is_ a MythTV system after all ;-) and I keep my O/S on a separate drive, it there any reason not to go with this latter option and start at sector 0?<br>
</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div style>I recommend using GPT instead of MBR on a disk that size... it's probably an advanced format disk. I would just "apt-get install gdisk" and use that to create the GPT and partitions; its ridiculously easy. I know that gparted has been updated to support GPT, but I don't recall what version that came in, and IIRC it's a bit more complicated to be sure you get it right.</div>
<div style><br></div><div style>Good luck!</div><div style><br></div><div style><br></div><div style><br></div><div style><br></div></div></div></div>