On Wed, Aug 5, 2015 at 10:52 AM, Bowie Bailey <Bowie_Bailey at buc.com> wrote: > > On 8/5/2015 12:34 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: >> >> On Wed, Aug 5, 2015 at 9:12 AM, Bowie Bailey <Bowie_Bailey at buc.com> wrote: >>> >>> I am trying to upgrade my system from 500GB drives to 1TB. >> >> I'm going to guess that there are no IDE drives that have 4096 byte >> physical sectors, but it's worth confirming you don't have such a >> drive because the current partition scheme you've posted would be >> sub-optimal if it does have 4096 byte sectors. > > > The partition table was originally created by the installer. Well, the CentOS5 installer and partitioning utility (parted) predate Advanced Format drives. I'd check to see whether you have such a drive. > Version : 0.90.00 Therefore 0xfd is correct. > I'm willing to give that a try. The device.map looks good to me: > (hd0) /dev/hde > (hd1) /dev/hdg > > It is old, but the drives are still connected to the same connectors, so it > should still be valid. I think you need to confirm that the device.map is correct. I just don't remember the command to figure out the mapping. > > How would I go about pointing it at the partition? > > What I am currently doing is this: > device (hd0) /dev/hdg > root (hd0,0) > setup (hd0) setup (hd1,0) It's hd1 if your device map is correct and hdg is hd1. And then ,0 is for the first partition assuming that's an ext3 boot partition. -- Chris Murphy