On Monday 26 January 2015 21:52:35 Bob Proulx did opine And Gene did reply: > Gene Heskett wrote: > > I was, I screwed around again last night and set it up again, using > > gparted, until everybody was happy. So now it looks like this: > > > > gene@coyote:~/Downloads$ sudo parted /dev/sdb unit s print > > [sudo] password for gene: > > Model: ATA ST1000VX000-1CU1 (scsi) > > Disk /dev/sdb: 1953525168s > > Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/4096B > > Partition Table: gpt > > > > Number Start End Size File system Name > > Flags > > > > 1 4130s 2072384s 2068255s ext4 > > 2 2072385s 104470694s 102398310s ext4 > > 3 104470695s 141334694s 36864000s linux-swap(v1) > > 4 141334695s 1953520064s 1812185370s ext4 > > > > gdisk says its ok, has a protective MBR but is using GPT. So probably > > the thing to do is get another disk, install to it, then copy it all > > to a good disk. That would at least get it onto this disk without > > the installers partitioner touching it. Worth the effort? At this > > point I am not sure. > > But a 4130 sector start would not be aligned. Aligned would be 4096 > for example. None of those seem aligned. Doesn't look happy. Will > probably have slow access on a 4k AF drive. > > Bob
I played around with it last night, using my old gparted, moving a partition start and end in mebibytes, one at a time, checking with the other partitioners as I did so, and finally wound up with this for parted's output, and even fdisk is happy. gene@coyote:/media$ sudo parted /dev/sdb [sudo] password for gene: GNU Parted 2.2 Using /dev/sdb Welcome to GNU Parted! Type 'help' to view a list of commands. (parted) print Model: ATA ST1000VX000-1CU1 (scsi) Disk /dev/sdb: 1000GB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/4096B Partition Table: msdos Number Start End Size Type File system Flags 1 8225kB 1086MB 1078MB primary ext4 boot 2 1086MB 53.5GB 52.4GB primary ext4 3 53.5GB 70.3GB 16.8GB primary linux-swap(v1) 4 70.3GB 1000GB 930GB primary ext4 (parted) Then I sicced mc to copy some of my junk to the newer drive, and exceeded 70 mb/sec on a couple of iso images, so I think it may be usable. We shall see later in the week if the networking settings survived a reboot. This next install has kmail-4.13.5 IIRC. I have copied my email corpus (nearly 6Gb) to the same place on the new drive, and will attempt to copy the kmailrc etc files over and see how bad I can make the newer version crash. I'd hate to have to re-invent all the mail sorting filters from scratch. Call me lazy, but duck. :) I've copied the latest mailfilter-8.3 sources over but have not built or installed it yet, along with its filter rules, which should complete the background mail suckage I use because kmail is single threaded and leaves the composer window frozen while its out doing its own mail suckage, which if there is a huge pile can take quite a few minutes. This way, it may only take 2 or 3 seconds. Thanks for the encouragement Bob, its appreciated. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> US V Castleman, SCOTUS, Mar 2014 is grounds for Impeaching SCOTUS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/201501262243.11384.ghesk...@wdtv.com
