Dale wrote: > Hmmm, then I guess I didn't do something right the first time I tried > cgdisk then. It said it wasn't aligned right but I couldn't figure out > how to get it to do it. Then I used Gparted and it seemed to do it > without me telling it anything. The only difference I saw was the > little 1Mb partition. Well, I plan to dd the thing and start over with > LVM and all so I'll see what it does next time. Maybe I just didn't do > something right. Since I have nothing windoze on here, do I really > need to worry about DOS booting? All I have is Gentoo here. Dale :-) :-)
OK. I tested this drive pretty well and I think it is going to be OK. I ran the Smart test, copied over 800Gbs of data over, deleted it then copied it over again. After that I ran dd to put it back like new. I only did the first 100Gbs or so, not the whole thing. I then ran the Smart test again and it reported no problems. Then I set up LVM and such which leads me to one more question. Instead of making a partition, I just told LVM to use the whole disk. Just a bit ago, I realized that means it may not be doing this alignment thing since I did it this way. So, is it OK to leave it as is or should I go back and create a partition and tell LVM to use that? When I was copying the stuff over, I used dstat to monitor the speed. It was hitting right at 360Mbs a second at its peak when *writing* data. I'm only 3Gbs/sec here. Seems pretty fast to me. OK to leave it like it is or go back and create a partition? Thoughts? Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words!
