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

[Tom H <tomh0665@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 2:33 PM, Hendrik Boom <hendrik@topoi.pooq.com> wrote:
> 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?
>
> Is there any way to tell how much space is needed?

For compatibility with modern drives, 2048.