[ale] Realigning a partition with data

[Jim Kinney]

Yeah. That ain't broke and don't need no stinkin' fixin'!

On Apr 23, 2017 2:59 PM, "Alex Carver" <agcarver+ale at acarver.net> wrote:

> 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.
> >     _______________________________________________
> >     Ale mailing list
> >     Ale at ale.org <mailto:Ale at ale.org>
> >     http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale
> >     <http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale>
> >     See JOBS, ANNOUNCE and SCHOOLS lists at
> >     http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo <http://mail.ale.org/mailman/
> listinfo>
> >
> >
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Ale mailing list
> > Ale at ale.org
> > http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale
> > See JOBS, ANNOUNCE and SCHOOLS lists at
> > http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo
> >
>
> _______________________________________________
> Ale mailing list
> Ale at ale.org
> http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale
> See JOBS, ANNOUNCE and SCHOOLS lists at
> http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mail.ale.org/pipermail/ale/attachments/20170423/b4d9ae19/attachment.html>