From: Mike Diehl <mdiehl@diehlnet.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Recovering RAID1 after disk failure
Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2011 00:17:21 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201106170017.21517.mdiehl@diehlnet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTi=Di1m8zfwuYgC7upVfpn72bxn+nA@mail.gmail.com>
Looks like I can take it from here! Thank you. I didn't know fdisk had an
"expert" menu.... <wink>
On Thursday 16 June 2011 11:14:30 pm Paul Hartman wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 10:00 PM, Mike Diehl <mdiehl@diehlnet.com> wrote:
> > I've got a sw RAID1 that just had a failed drive replaced with an
> > identical drive.
> >
> > However, the good drive started on sector 63 and the new drive want's to
> > start on sector 2048. Fdisk won't let me create the partition table on
> > the new drive as it is on the old drive.
>
> Hi Mike,
>
> I believe this is due to the alignment code in newer versions of fdisk
> (2048 sector = 1 megabyte)
>
> I think you can use the expert menu in fdisk ("x" from the main menu)
> to achieve what you're trying to do. I can't tell you the exact steps
> but I am 99.9% sure it can be done.
--
Take care and have fun,
Mike Diehl.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-06-17 7:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-06-17 3:00 [gentoo-user] Recovering RAID1 after disk failure Mike Diehl
2011-06-17 5:14 ` Paul Hartman
2011-06-17 6:17 ` Mike Diehl [this message]
2011-06-17 6:27 ` Andrea Conti
2011-06-17 6:34 ` Mike Diehl
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