Re: Squeeze boots into my LVM over RAID, but wheezy won't.

[Hendrik Boom <hendrik@topoi.pooq.com>]

On Mon, 01 Oct 2012 12:04:56 -0400, Tom H wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 11:33 AM, Hendrik Boom <hendrik@topoi.pooq.com>
> wrote:
>> On Mon, 01 Oct 2012 10:48:53 -0400, Tom H wrote:
>>> On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 10:35 AM, Hendrik Boom <hendrik@topoi.pooq.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>> On Mon, 01 Oct 2012 10:08:43 -0400, Tom H wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> How big's your post-MBR gap?
>>>>
>>>> I gather that's the so-called embedding region.  I don't know.  How
>>>> do I go about finding out?  Can I change it?
>>>
>>> fdisk -l /dev/sdX
>>
>> april:/farhome/hendrik# fdisk -l /dev/sdd
>>    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
>> /dev/sdd1               1         124      995998+  83  Linux
>>
>> april:/farhome/hendrik# fdisk -l /dev/sdc
>>    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
>> /dev/sdc1               1         132     1060258+  83  Linux
> 
> There's no post-MBR gap since sdX1 starts on "1".

So I'd have to move those partitions slightly so they'll start at 2?

Or 3?

That I can probably do!

Is there any way to tell how much space is needed?

-- hendrik