On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 12:30:14PM +0000, Gary Stainburn wrote:
Hi all, Yesterday one of the HDD's in a F19 (yes I know) server died. I found this out when the server would not reboot (45miles away from where I was too :( ) The only way the server would boot was if I disconnected the drive, connected to ATA0 /dev/sdb. I have now replaced the drive with another of the same model and am about to set about rebuilding the RAID1 setup. However every page that Google gives me regarding this shows using FDisk to sort out the partition table prior to starting. The niggle I've got is that because these are all 3TB drives I can't use fdisk. If I use fdisk on one of the existing drives I get: Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 1 4294967295 2147483647+ ee GPT Partition 1 does not start on physical sector boundary. My question is, what do I need to do to set up the new drive, without using fdisk, so that I can then start rebuilding the 3 RAID1 devices on it? If anyone has a link to a full set of instructions for restoring a large HDD I'd appreciate it _______________________________________________
Hi Gary, You should use parted instead of fdisk to create the GPT and its partitions. It should be able to handle larger partitions than fdisk. Are you using mdadm for the RAID1 array? -- Juan Martinez <redhat@xxxxxxxxxxx> _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
