Re: So much for a wheezy install, massive fail
On Monday 26 January 2015 21:52:35 Bob Proulx did opine
And Gene did reply:
> Gene Heskett wrote:
> > I was, I screwed around again last night and set it up again, using
> > gparted, until everybody was happy. So now it looks like this:
> >
> > gene@coyote:~/Downloads$ sudo parted /dev/sdb unit s print
> > [sudo] password for gene:
> > Model: ATA ST1000VX000-1CU1 (scsi)
> > Disk /dev/sdb: 1953525168s
> > Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/4096B
> > Partition Table: gpt
> >
> > Number Start End Size File system Name
> > Flags
> >
> > 1 4130s 2072384s 2068255s ext4
> > 2 2072385s 104470694s 102398310s ext4
> > 3 104470695s 141334694s 36864000s linux-swap(v1)
> > 4 141334695s 1953520064s 1812185370s ext4
> >
> > gdisk says its ok, has a protective MBR but is using GPT. So probably
> > the thing to do is get another disk, install to it, then copy it all
> > to a good disk. That would at least get it onto this disk without
> > the installers partitioner touching it. Worth the effort? At this
> > point I am not sure.
>
> But a 4130 sector start would not be aligned. Aligned would be 4096
> for example. None of those seem aligned. Doesn't look happy. Will
> probably have slow access on a 4k AF drive.
>
> Bob
I played around with it last night, using my old gparted, moving a
partition start and end in mebibytes, one at a time, checking with the
other partitioners as I did so, and finally wound up with this for
parted's output, and even fdisk is happy.
gene@coyote:/media$ sudo parted /dev/sdb
[sudo] password for gene:
GNU Parted 2.2
Using /dev/sdb
Welcome to GNU Parted! Type 'help' to view a list of commands.
(parted) print
Model: ATA ST1000VX000-1CU1 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sdb: 1000GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/4096B
Partition Table: msdos
Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
1 8225kB 1086MB 1078MB primary ext4 boot
2 1086MB 53.5GB 52.4GB primary ext4
3 53.5GB 70.3GB 16.8GB primary linux-swap(v1)
4 70.3GB 1000GB 930GB primary ext4
(parted)
Then I sicced mc to copy some of my junk to the newer drive, and exceeded
70 mb/sec on a couple of iso images, so I think it may be usable. We
shall see later in the week if the networking settings survived a reboot.
This next install has kmail-4.13.5 IIRC. I have copied my email corpus
(nearly 6Gb) to the same place on the new drive, and will attempt to copy
the kmailrc etc files over and see how bad I can make the newer version
crash. I'd hate to have to re-invent all the mail sorting filters from
scratch. Call me lazy, but duck. :)
I've copied the latest mailfilter-8.3 sources over but have not built or
installed it yet, along with its filter rules, which should complete the
background mail suckage I use because kmail is single threaded and leaves
the composer window frozen while its out doing its own mail suckage, which
if there is a huge pile can take quite a few minutes. This way, it may
only take 2 or 3 seconds.
Thanks for the encouragement Bob, its appreciated.
Cheers, Gene Heskett
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