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On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 10:00 PM, Mike Diehl <mdiehl@××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> I've got a sw RAID1 that just had a failed drive replaced with an identical |
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> drive. |
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> However, the good drive started on sector 63 and the new drive want's to start |
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> on sector 2048. Fdisk won't let me create the partition table on the new |
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> drive as it is on the old drive. |
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Hi Mike, |
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I believe this is due to the alignment code in newer versions of fdisk |
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(2048 sector = 1 megabyte) |
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I think you can use the expert menu in fdisk ("x" from the main menu) |
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to achieve what you're trying to do. I can't tell you the exact steps |
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but I am 99.9% sure it can be done. |