Greetings; This time I just let it do its own multiple partition thing. When the install was done, every other disk partitioner we have reports that the partition boundaries are out of sync with the 4k sectors of this drive. Both beginning and ending.
So I am, before I try to recover all the data from this failing boot drive, (it was read-only when I woke up this morning and I have since replaced its red sata cable, known to me to have a high failure rate that goes back 45 years when I see this particular shade of just barely magenta red, it eats the copper in the wire, turning it into dust in a few years) attempting to resize/move things to get rid of the partitioning errors. And I needed an /opt partition to hold quite a bit of my stuff too. SO ATM gparted is moving the huge /home partition up by 8 mebibytes, and shrinking it to around 460g's, so I can use the rest for /opt. The point of this is that gparted is now moving data at nominally 160 to 180 megabytes a second of combined read and writes, so I have to assume I've hit the correct geometry for this partition. Only 6 more to go when swap is included. I'll spend the rest of the night fixing this, but why the heck do I have to. Dumb partitioner, thats why. Thanks for reading this far. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> US V Castleman, SCOTUS, Mar 2014 is grounds for Impeaching SCOTUS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/201502021816.34821.ghesk...@wdtv.com