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Yohan Pereira wrote: |
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> On 08/08/12 at 10:22pm, Dale wrote: |
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>> I used something called Gparted to partition this monster. This is |
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>> temporary tho. What should I be using to partition this thing? What is |
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>> the best, and easiest, tool for me to use? I have been using cfdisk in |
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>> the past but it doesn't seem to work on this one. I do want one very |
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>> large partition and plan to use LVM on it too. |
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>> Oh, it would be nice if the tool is on LiveCDs, SystemRescue in my |
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>> case. I use that when the stuff hits the fan and I am covered up pretty |
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>> deep. ;-) |
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> GParted is on systemrescuecd :D. Its that goldenish disk icon on the |
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> panel. GParted is a frontend to parted you can use that directly as |
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> well. |
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It turned out that my problem was getting it to "align" properly. It |
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seems that GParted does that pretty well. I guess if I am without a GUI |
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thingy, I can use parted. |
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I couldn't get cgdisk to work right tho. Heck, it took me a bit to get |
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GParted to sort it out and it is supposed to be the easy way. lol |
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Sometimes new toys cause me grief. ;-) |
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Since I like cfdisk, are there any tricks to using cgdisk and getting it |
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to "align" it correctly? The drive is a Seagate ST3000DM001 3Tb drive. |
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I think this is the key bit: |
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Logical Sector size: 512 bytes |
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Physical Sector size: 4096 bytes |
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Just not sure where cgdisk wants me to put that info. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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