Muhammad Yousuf Khan a écrit : > > Pascal thanks for the tip about extending one of the partition and using > the free space i will do so but for now my primary problem is to create a > boot partition so that i can boot and replace the old 1.5 TB with 2TB > drive. as you said boot partition in GPT can be created anywhere not > necessarily at start.
Caution : anywhere within the 2 TiB boundary addressable by BIOS. You don't have to worry about it with a 2 TB disk (2 TB < 2 TiB). > Number Start (sector) End (sector) Size Code Name > 1 2048 7813119 3.7 GiB FD00 Linux RAID > 3 27344896 1980469247 931.3 GiB FD00 Linux RAID > 4 1980469248 2930276351 452.9 GiB FD00 Linux RAID > 5 7815168 27344895 9.3 GiB FD00 Linux RAID > > As you can see partition 2 is missing. Yes, partition 2 was probably the previous extended partition containing the previously logical partition 5. > when i am creating the new partition > it is starting from the "2930276352" (+1 ending sector of partition 4) This is just the default start position proposed by gdisk. Gdisk also displays the possible start range. I suggest to select the unallocated sector range 7813120-7815168 (1 MiB) between partitions 1 and 5 for the new BIOS boot partition. > should i create partition 2 of a size of 1 GB. 1 GB is much too big. As previously said, 1 MiB is just plenty. > and make it as a boot > partition and install grup on that partition. Actually you don't explicitly install grub on that partition. You tell grub-install to install the bootloader on the disk, and it will implicitly find and use the partition. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/5592e9fe.5040...@plouf.fr.eu.org
