On Wed, June 30, 2010 09:31, J. Epperson wrote: > 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. > >
Just got around to doing the live boot and making the adjustments suggested by Jefferson Ogata. I ended up removing the partitions and adding back with correct end points rather than using "move" in parted. All is well. I did have to manually redo swap after reboot with: mkswap -c -U<my_uuid> /dev/sda3 with uuid gleaned from /etc/fstab. Thanks to all who offered help, and particularly to Jefferson Ogata and to Bond Masuda. Happy Fourth of July. _______________________________________________ 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
