Alexey Loukianov spake the following on 11/15/2006 7:05 AM: > Greetings, Scott. > > 8 ?????? 2006 ?., 19:40:44 you have wrote: > >> Adriano Frare spake the following on 11/7/2006 5:51 PM: >>> I tested RAID 1 with differents size hard disk , it is work. >>> >>> You need first, execute command sfdisk -l /dev/hd_GOOD > partitions.txt >>> Second execute command sfdisk /dev/hd_NEWDISK < partitons.txt. >>> >>> After recover process normal RAID recover. >>> >> Or shorten it with a pipe; >> sfdisk -l /dev/hd_GOOD | sfdisk /dev/hd_NEWDISK > > To be totally correct, use -uS, as when info is displayed in block > units, some rounding of the size might occur. > > Compare this: > > [root at runchik ~]# sfdisk -l /dev/sda > > Disk /dev/sda: 8923 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors/track > Units = cylinders of 8225280 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0 > > Device Boot Start End #cyls #blocks Id System > /dev/sda1 * 0+ 12 13- 104391 83 Linux > /dev/sda2 13 143 131 1052257+ 82 Linux swap > /dev/sda3 144 8922 8779 70517317+ 8e Linux LVM > /dev/sda4 0 - 0 0 0 Empty > > With this: > > [root at runchik ~]# sfdisk -uS -l /dev/sda > > Disk /dev/sda: 8923 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors/track > Units = sectors of 512 bytes, counting from 0 > > Device Boot Start End #sectors Id System > /dev/sda1 * 63 208844 208782 83 Linux > /dev/sda2 208845 2313359 2104515 82 Linux swap > /dev/sda3 2313360 143347994 141034635 8e Linux LVM > /dev/sda4 0 - 0 0 Empty > I actually forgot about this post, but I meant to post sfdisk -d /dev/hd_GOOD | sfdisk /dev/hd_NEWDISK to get the partition table dump that sfdisk is looking for. -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!!