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Hodgins wrote: +</I>>><i> +</I>>><i> +</I>>>><i> On Fri, 06 Jul 2012 04:03:34 -0400, blind Pete +</I>>>><i> <<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss">0123peter at gmail.com</A>> wrote: +</I>>>><i> +</I>>>><i> +</I>>>>><i> Morgan Leijström wrote: +</I>>>>><i> +</I>>>>>><i> It would also be interesting to know what other tools say. +</I>>>>>><i> gparted? +</I>>>>>><i> +</I>>>><i> +</I>>>>><i> Gparted looks pretty. As far as I can see, gparted agrees +</I>>>>><i> with what I think things should look like. Gparted and +</I>>>>><i> fdisk agree about the number of sectors. (More than you +</I>>>>><i> get by multiplying CxHxS.) +</I>>>>><i> +</I>>>><i> Interesting. I guess it would be best to use 'hdparm -i /dev/sda|grep +</I>>>><i> LBAsects" to find out the number of sectors. +</I>>>><i> +</I>>>><i> Regards, Dave Hodgins +</I>>>><i> +</I>>><i> [<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss">root at live</A> ~]# hdparm -i /dev/sda | grep LBA +</I>>><i> CurCHS=16383/16/63, CurSects=16514064, LBA=yes, LBAsects=1953523055 +</I>>><i> [<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss">root at live</A> ~]# +</I>>><i> +</I>>><i> Same number of sectors as gparted and fdisk report. Number of heads +</I>>><i> and sectors per cylinder are just, "it's a big disk". _Posssibly_ +</I>>><i> number of cylinders gives a clue about how big. H can be 63 or 255, +</I>>><i> depending on mood, and CxHxS should be a little less than max LBA. +</I>>><i> +</I>>><i> The situation just got worse. The latest work arround is to lie +</I>>><i> about how big a sector is. That is called "advanced" formatting. +</I>>><i> +</I>>><i> +</I>><i> Coming into this a little late, but I read somewhere that cfdisk was to +</I>><i> avoid, because of unsolved bugs which could result in disk corruption. +</I>><i> That was a while back, but apparently it still applies. +</I> +That would be disturbing. BTW I'm using old software, Mageia 1. + +But to be fair, in this case cfdisk's only crime seems to be that it +is refusing to look at a valid partition. The main suspect is +still the Mageia 2 installer. + +><i> BTW, with all those partitions, I would convert your disk to GPT tables +</I>><i> instead of MBR, using gdisk. +</I>><i> (gdisk is in core.) +</I> +OK I have installed gdisk and will look at it. How would you rate +it for maturity? And what else can recognize a gpt disk? +Grub? +Grub2? +Lilo? +The Mageia installer? +Other installers? +Other operating systems? + +><i> It will make your disk more stable. +</I>><i> It uses a 128 partition table,with a backup table at the end of the drive. +</I>><i> No such thing as "extended" partitions. +</I>><i> It takes less space than the ms-compatible MBR partition tables. +</I>><i> The only trick is that you need to leave space for the backup table (34 +</I>><i> 512-byte sectors). +</I>><i> If you change your mind, you can convert back painlessly. +</I>><i> I've used GPT for over 2 years, including converting back and forth a +</I>><i> few times at first. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> To convert, you'll have to boot to a live disk, preferably with gdisk. +</I>><i> I use systemRescueCD for that. <A HREF="http://www.sysresccd.org/">http://www.sysresccd.org/</A> +</I>><i> The latest stable version is 379 Mib, usable from CD or USB key. +</I>><i> I don't know if a Mageia live cd, or Mageia DVD in rescue mode might work. +</I> +In Mageia 1 the installer pulled it from the net rather than from +the local iso, so it was not prepackaged. + +><i> Just in case you might be interested +</I> +I'm interested. + +><i> Regards :) +</I>><i> +</I> +-- +blind Pete +Sig goes here... + +</PRE> + + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="008160.html">[Mageia-discuss] partitioning bug +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="008164.html">[Mageia-discuss] partitioning bug +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#8161">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#8161">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#8161">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#8161">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + +<hr> +<a href="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss">More information about the Mageia-discuss +mailing list</a><br> +</body></html> |