On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 06:27:48PM +1100, Neil Brown wrote: > You can create partitions in any way you like. cfdisk is quite good > at making this ... not trivial, but not hard. > Create a tiny "1s" partition at the Beginning of the device. This will be > sdb1. Create another tiny partition - sdb2 > Change the Units to 'sectors'. Create another partition - sdb3 of the > desired size at the End. - put an 's' at the end of the number to > indicate sectors > 218837432s > > Then delete sdb2 and create a new sdb2 using all the space.
Thanks Neil, this is pretty much exactly what I wanted. I had some difficulties: - Fedora doesn't seem to have cfdisk in its yum repositories, nor in dag's respository, and rpmfind only found 1 RPM that had broken dependencies. I had to download the source from Debian and compile that. Come on Fedora! - The first time I left sdb1 as 1 sector long cfdisk complained about illegal overlapping logical partitions when I tried to load it again. In the end I kept sdb1 and sdb3 the corect matching sizes and made sdb2 fill the middle. Thanks for your help. Everything is up and running redundantly again now.
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