[CentOS] raid resync speed? - laptop drive-

Sat May 22 00:54:16 UTC 2010
Robert Nichols <rnicholsNOSPAM at comcast.net>

On 05/21/2010 07:39 PM, Robert Nichols wrote:
> You have another way out.  By my calculation, that drive is partitioned
> in DOS compatibility mode, which leaves the remainder of the MBR track
> unused.  Running fdisk in expert mode ("x" command), you can move the
> partition's beginning of data ("b" command) from sector 63 back to
> sector 56.  That will give you the needed 4K alignment and a partition
> that is no smaller than what it was before.

Right idea, not the right procedure.  You'll need to turn off DOS
compatibility mode, then create the partition, and then go into
expert mode and move the beginning of data from sector 1 to sector
56.

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