On Tue, June 29, 2010 22:16, Jefferson Ogata wrote: > On 2010-06-30 01:53, J. Epperson wrote: >> On Tue, June 29, 2010 21:27, Jefferson Ogata wrote: >>>> Number Start End Size Type File system >>>> Flags 1 63s 401622s 401560s primary ext3 >>>> boot 2 401625s 139299608s 138897984s primary ext3 3 >>>> 139299616s 143380124s 4080509s primary swap >>> I would say those end sectors on partitions 1 and 2 should be one >>> less than the following partition's start sector. The end sector of >>> partition 3 looks correct; though the last sector on the disk is >>> 143380479, when you round down to a cylinder boundary you end up at >>> 143380124. >> >> I was thinking the same thing, but that's what the parted rescue >> "found", so I assumed it was correct. Looking at another F12 system, >> what you say is how that one is. Not sure what to do, try it as is or >> make the adjustment. I do notice from the other system that I should >> probably mark the swap as FS type linux-swap(v1). The other system >> looks like: > > I don't think it would actually matter with partition 1. If your > filesystem has a 2kB or 4kB block size, then those extra 2 sectors won't > ever be addressed. With partition 2, however, the additional 7 sectors > extend the volume by one or two filesystem blocks (with 3 extra sectors > on the end). > > I would go ahead and extend the partitions to the n-1 values. It's always > safe to have a filesystem on a block device that is larger than the > filesystem, but the converse is not true. You can also check the > superblock with tune2fs -l to see how big the filesytem thinks the block > device is. "Block count" * "Block size" / 512 should be <= the number of > sectors. >
I understand and will take that advice. Hilariously, although gparted blithely let me blow away the previous partition table without a whimper and parted let me build a new one with the partitions mounted, parted now refuses to let me adjust the partition end points because they are mounted. I suppose I could blow the whole thing away again and redo from scratch, but I think I'm going to boot rescue and do with it with them not mounted. _______________________________________________ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list [email protected] https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq
