[mythtv-users] WD15EARS WD Green drives

[Jelte Veldstra]

On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 7:47 PM, Digital Hit Entertainment
<dhenews at hotmail.com> wrote:
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>> worry about the tiny bit of space lost because of this). I've seen
>> instructions saying to use parted instead of fdisk, but that's really
>> not necessary. The link someone else provided to the WD tutorial
>> covers this.
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> Thanks for the info, everyone. I'll be doing a fresh install on a new system of Ubuntu 10.10. From what I've been reading just now, Ubuntu's utilities have been fine with advanced format drives since 10.04, so I should be okay.
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For my WD20EARS drive I used this howto to partition it correctly:

http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/forum/showthread.php?77769-A-Simple-How-To-on-Partitioning-and-Alignment-on-GNU-Linux-using-fdisk