Re: 3rd new wheezy install
On Mon, Feb 02, 2015 at 06:16:34PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> Greetings;
>
> This time I just let it do its own multiple partition thing. When the
> install was done, every other disk partitioner we have reports that the
> partition boundaries are out of sync with the 4k sectors of this drive.
> Both beginning and ending.
>
> So I am, before I try to recover all the data from this failing boot
> drive, (it was read-only when I woke up this morning and I have since
> replaced its red sata cable, known to me to have a high failure rate that
> goes back 45 years when I see this particular shade of just barely magenta
> red, it eats the copper in the wire, turning it into dust in a few years)
> attempting to resize/move things to get rid of the partitioning errors.
>
> And I needed an /opt partition to hold quite a bit of my stuff too. SO
> ATM gparted is moving the huge /home partition up by 8 mebibytes, and
> shrinking it to around 460g's, so I can use the rest for /opt.
>
> The point of this is that gparted is now moving data at nominally 160 to
> 180 megabytes a second of combined read and writes, so I have to assume
> I've hit the correct geometry for this partition. Only 6 more to go when
> swap is included. I'll spend the rest of the night fixing this, but why
> the heck do I have to. Dumb partitioner, thats why.
I believe that sfdisk gives more precise information
about disk partition geometry than many other tools.
> Thanks for reading this far.
>
> Cheers, Gene Heskett
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Joel Roth
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