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 -- Joel Roth -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150203231107.GA3409@sprite