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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