Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Sun, 12 Mar 2000 21:01:54 +0000 (GMT) | | From | Riley Williams <> | | Subject | Re: 1024 byte sector file system problem. |
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Hi there.
>> should a disk that was fdisk/formatted on an earlier kernel >> (i.e. before this change, for example a 2.0.26 kernel) work >> _as is_ under the new kernels, or do I need to NFS copy my >> 100 gigabytes of data from one system to the other ?
> No, you need to change a few bytes in the partition table.
> (Roughly speaking: the partition is determined by the pair > (start,length). Earlier this was taken to be in 512-byte > units, now it is taken in hardware sector size units. So, > if your hardware sector size is 1024 bytes, these two > numbers must be halved.
> That is easy to do with some sfdisk handwork. But I could > write a tiny conversion utility that does the `read, divide > by 2, write' for you. Mail me [not dwguest] if you need > such a utility.)
How would that deal with partitions that are an odd number of sectors in length, as sometimes happens?
Best wishes from Riley.
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