On 4/12/13 10:52 AM, "Phil Turmel" <philip@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >NOT a guess. Back up what you can, while you can, and start over. Use >"fdisk -u" so you can ensure partitions start on multiples of eight (8) >sectors. (Modern fdisk uses 1MB alignment by default. Highly >recommended.) > > So, if I start the partition at sector 64 (rather than 63), that's better, right (since 64 is a multiple of 8)? Or is there more math to do and I'm still not getting it? --- Mike VanHorn Senior Computer Systems Administrator College of Engineering and Computer Science Wright State University 265 Russ Engineering Center 937-775-5157 michael.vanhorn@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.cecs.wright.edu/~mvanhorn/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html