On 09/18/2016 12:50 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: > > This is one of the dumbest things, haha. I do not for the life of me > understand what distribution won't backport this, if they're unwilling > to put modern tools for modern hardware in their distributions. It's > one of the simplest, safest backports they could do and yet they > don't. Incredible to me. Yeaaaa.... and considering how often I have to do these kinds of installs or admin... it's... well.. yea. > Any version of gdisk will do this correctly out of the box, so you can > just install that from your existing old distro presumably. And if you > can't, then get a recent live CD from pretty much anybody: Fedora 23 > or Fedora 24 has gdisk already on the media, and its version of parted > and fdisk, also included, all do alignment to 4KiB sectors correctly. > > Actually, on either Fedora live media version you can do > > dnf install https://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org//packages/blivet-gui/2.0.1/1.fc25/noarch/blivet-gui-2.0.1-1.fc25.noarch.rpm > > Which is the current version, and it will work on F24 for sure and > maybe/probably F23 also. And dnf will sort out any additional > dependencies needed. It has a similar gparted style UI, but it will do > all kinds of wild things: mdadm raid, LVM raid, Btrfs. It'll create > the partitions, RAID, LV's, file systems, and it will discover things > already on the drive and properly wipe their signatures with a proper > tear down before creating the new things. So you don't end up with > crusty old stuff coming back to haunt you some other day. > I'll check - this is CentOS... but I've (as shown in followup email) played with fdisk (which doesn't bother me) and some of the others... now I just have to sort out this offset issue which I think I'm stuck with due to different partition sizes. -Ben -- 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
