3rd new wheezy install
Greetings;
This time I just let it do its own multiple partition thing. When the
install was done, every other disk partitioner we have reports that the
partition boundaries are out of sync with the 4k sectors of this drive.
Both beginning and ending.
So I am, before I try to recover all the data from this failing boot
drive, (it was read-only when I woke up this morning and I have since
replaced its red sata cable, known to me to have a high failure rate that
goes back 45 years when I see this particular shade of just barely magenta
red, it eats the copper in the wire, turning it into dust in a few years)
attempting to resize/move things to get rid of the partitioning errors.
And I needed an /opt partition to hold quite a bit of my stuff too. SO
ATM gparted is moving the huge /home partition up by 8 mebibytes, and
shrinking it to around 460g's, so I can use the rest for /opt.
The point of this is that gparted is now moving data at nominally 160 to
180 megabytes a second of combined read and writes, so I have to assume
I've hit the correct geometry for this partition. Only 6 more to go when
swap is included. I'll spend the rest of the night fixing this, but why
the heck do I have to. Dumb partitioner, thats why.
Thanks for reading this far.
Cheers, Gene Heskett
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