partition and format a advanced format drive

Hi,

I want to partition and format a advanced format drive via the terminal. I use a Red Hat 6.3 derivative (ClearOS). Can anyone tell me how this is done or point me to a how-to? If i'm correct if you want optimal speed the partitions should start at multiples of 4096 bytes.

I am assuming you have a 4k sector drive. Use parted:

Code:

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parted --align=opt /dev/sdx
  mklabel gpt
  mkpart primary 0% 100%
  quit

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You will then want to also align the filesystem. This is an example if you want to use ext4.

Code:

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mkfs.ext4 -b 4096 /dev/sdx1

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