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David Favor

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Thanks for the thought. As this is a clients server it will take me a little time to get the answer.
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Thanks for the thought. As this is a clients server it will take me a little time to get the answer.

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Seagate Exos 7E2000 SATA ST1000NX0303. Looks like this drive is inherently 4096 bytes per sector.
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Seagate Exos 7E2000 SATA ST1000NX0303. Looks like this drive is inherently 4096 bytes per sector.

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That would explain it, I think mkfs also sets 4K sectors on 512e drives as well because they report 4K physical sectors and aligns them properly.
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That would explain it, I think mkfs also sets 4K sectors on 512e drives as well because they report 4K physical sectors and aligns them properly.

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RHEL7 formatting 1 TB disk defaults.<br />
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We have a case where a 1 TB disk was formatted during installation with 4096 byte sectors when we expected 512. Is this the default for large disks and can it be changed to 512 during installation?
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RHEL7 formatting 1 TB disk defaults.

We have a case where a 1 TB disk was formatted during installation with 4096 byte sectors when we expected 512. Is this the default for large disks and can it be changed to 512 during installation?

RedHat 7 disk formatting for 1 TB disk

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