On Sun, Jan 14, 2024 at 08:01:52AM +0000, Andy Smith wrote: > If necessary and if there is a way, I *can* nuke off the target > machine's "foo" volume group and recreate the RAID array if I have > to make it 512e format. But obviously I'd like some way to move this > disk image and have it still work without having to meddle inside it > much — it is a VM disk.
I think I may be able to use hdparm to reformat these Ultrastar DCs from 4kn to 512e… hdparm --set-sector-size 512 --please-destroy-my-drive /dev/sdX https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Advanced_Format#Advanced_Format_hard_disk_drives It is okay to destroy the drive contents as there's nothing working on there yet given this initial failure. I think that is the only way this is going to work without mounting filesystems both sides and using an fs-aware tool like tar|ssh or rsync… which I don't want to do. Thoughts? Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting
