On 07/26/2015 09:59 PM, Denis Heidtmann wrote: > To install Ubuntu 14.04 on a new 1T drive I moved the cables from the > current internal drive to the new drive. I installed from a DVD. I chose > the default partitioning. > > First question: > Everything went as expected, except fdisk -l shows: > > /dev/sda1 .97x10^9 blocks ID 83 Linux > /dev/sda2 6.2x10^6 blocks ID 5 extended > Partition 2 does not start on a sector boundary > /dev/sda5 6.2x10^6 blocks ID 82 swap > > (I expressed the block count that way for brevity.)
Egad, man! please don't! > > Is the starting of partition 2 not on a boundary because the memory > installed is 6,260,740,096 bytes (5Gb) ? Is it a problem? If yes, how do > I correct it? (Re-install is fine. I have not done anything with the new > drive.) > This is just a warning. I/O performance "might" be effected. This is an MBR vs. GPT issue with fdisk when partioning large hard drives. Try partitioning with gdisk or sfdisk The ubuntu forums and howto's have a bunch or entries on this. For example: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2263255 > > Second question: > My desktop computer has an internal SATA drive and a SATA drive dock. The > dock is normally used to hold my backup drive. Can I do the install in the > dock, copy data from the old drive to the new drive, then move the new > drive to the internal location? Will the drive then be known as > /dev/sdb1? How do I tell the install program to find the external drive? When Linux boots, all drives get a /dev/sdX label but unless the partitions are in /etc/fstab they will not be automatically mounted. you can look in /var/log/[dmesg | messages | syslog] Find out all the /dev/sdXn as listed in the logs and then either make an entry in /etc/fstab (with out without "noauto" Also, once partitioned and formatted formatted, and depending on your WM/DE setting for dbus/udev, the hard drive in the dock should hot plug/automount. > > Thanks, > -Denis > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > . > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
