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 <mdi...@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.
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Take care and have fun,
Mike Diehl.
