From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Vanhorn, Mike" Subject: Re: Odd --examine output Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2013 13:46:43 +0000 Message-ID: References: <51681FB2.8060803@turmel.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Return-path: In-Reply-To: <51681FB2.8060803@turmel.org> Content-Language: en-US Content-ID: <82136C1225848F4A895778414F290C3F@prod.exchangelabs.com> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Phil Turmel , Linux RAID List-Id: linux-raid.ids On 4/12/13 10:52 AM, "Phil Turmel" wrote: >NOT a guess. Back up what you can, while you can, and start over. Use >"fdisk -u" so you can ensure partitions start on multiples of eight (8) >sectors. (Modern fdisk uses 1MB alignment by default. Highly >recommended.) > > So, if I start the partition at sector 64 (rather than 63), that's better, right (since 64 is a multiple of 8)? Or is there more math to do and I'm still not getting it? --- Mike VanHorn Senior Computer Systems Administrator College of Engineering and Computer Science Wright State University 265 Russ Engineering Center 937-775-5157 michael.vanhorn@wright.edu http://www.cecs.wright.edu/~mvanhorn/