[ale] Realigning a partition with data

[Alex Carver]

True, I just wondered if there was a way given that parted/resize2fs
both worked pretty well with data on a partition (I ddrescue'd the old
drive to the SSD then grew the partition).

However, after running a couple I/O tests on the drive I'm not going to
bother with the realignment.  I'm getting read speeds of about 160
MB/sec and write speeds of 116 MB/sec.  Given the age of the machine
that's pretty good (AMD K6 with a PCI SATA card and SATA SSD to replace
the on-board IDE and old Maxtor drives)

On 2017-04-23 05:04, Jim Kinney wrote:
> I would not consider realignment safe with data on the sectors that are soon to 
> be outside the partition.
> 
> On Apr 23, 2017 2:00 AM, "Alex Carver" <agcarver+ale at acarver.net 
> <mailto:agcarver%2Bale at acarver.net>> wrote:
> 
>     Just swapped out a spinning drive for an SSD but I probably need to
>     realign the partitions.  Currently everything is in one partition at the
>     start of the disk but it's on sector 63.  I can pop the disk out and
>     plug it into another machine to do this but I'd like to slide the
>     partition over to the right spot (assuming this doesn't affect the boot
>     process).  I haven't found a way to do this as nearly every page I find
>     talks about having parted align new partitions but not those that have data.
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