Hi, I installed Debian Squeeze on a server with 2 Disks on RAID 1 The second disk failed and I was trying to replace it with a new one. And I found this in the partition table
================================ root@vmsrv:~# fdisk -l /dev/sda Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x0009e3c2 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 1 37 291840 fd Linux raid autodetect Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary. /dev/sda2 37 159 976896 fd Linux raid autodetect Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary. /dev/sda3 159 2225 16601088 fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/sda4 2225 60802 470515712 fd Linux raid autodetect root@vmsrv:~# ========================================== The disk has only 60801 cylinders but the ending cylinder is 60802 for the 4th partition :-( The end of a partion and the begining of the following one are identical. If i try to create the same on another identical disk using fdisk I get the value out of range error. Finally I did #sfdisk -d /dev/sda | sfdisk -f /dev/sdb and got the hard disk added to raid. Is this partitioning dangerous? How should I rectify it? Thanks --Siju
