On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 10:00 PM, Mike Diehl <mdi...@diehlnet.com> wrote:
> I've got a sw RAID1 that just had a failed drive replaced with an identical
> drive.
>
> However, the good drive started on sector 63 and the new drive want's to start
> on sector 2048. Â Fdisk won't let me create the partition table on the new
> drive as it is on the old drive.
Hi Mike,
I believe this is due to the alignment code in newer versions of fdisk
(2048 sector = 1 megabyte)
I think you can use the expert menu in fdisk ("x" from the main menu)
to achieve what you're trying to do. I can't tell you the exact steps
but I am 99.9% sure it can be done.
