On 07/26/2011 03:53 PM, Les Mikesell wrote:
Thank you! That seems to have worked, but now I'm curious as to why the partition on the old drives didn't go to the end of the disk - which I had expected would have left no extra room. Was the dos style rounding computing the end of a cylinder wrong?
fdisk -lu /dev/sdh (old 3.5") Disk /dev/sdh: 750.1 GB, 750156374016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 91201 cylinders, total 1465149168 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdh1 63 1465144064 732572001 fd Linux raid autodetect
Simple. The drive does not contain an integral number of those arbitrary 255H x 63S cylinders, and with the previous cylinder-aligned partitioning the partition extended only to the end of the last full cylinder.