On 2022-06-01 02:36, Marco Calistri wrote:
Hello,
This is not an openSUSE specific support request but it's related to a series of error messages I noticed after having cloned my older HDD 512/512 bytes/sector to a newer Western Digital HDD, which uses the advanced format 512/4096 bytes per sector.
AFAIK you can not clone from-to that setup. Well, you may, if logical sizes are the same, but... Assuming you mean a byte by byte hard disk clone, as with dd.
I would like to avoid that this sort of partitioning may affect the read/write IO rates.
The errors I see are these:
marco@linux-turion64:~> sudo fdisk -x
Disk /dev/sda: 931,51 GiB, 1000204886016 bytes, 1953525168 sectors Disk model: WDC WD10SPZX-22Z Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes Disklabel type: dos Disk identifier: 0x5bc53d8b
Dispositivo Avvio Start Fine Settori Id Tipo Start-C/H/S End-C/H/S Attrs /dev/sda1 * 2048 1026036 1023989 7 HPFS 0/32/33 63/221/19 80 /dev/sda2 1026037 447673612 446647576 7 HPFS 63/221/20 218/100/23 /dev/sda3 447673613 449516792 1843180 27 Hidd 218/100/24 333/32/12 /dev/sda4 449516793 1953523118 1504006326 f W95 333/32/13 769/48/30 /dev/sda5 449516795 617287136 167770342 83 Linu 333/32/15 536/88/33 /dev/sda6 617287138 1918772938 1301485801 83 Linu 536/88/35 654/23/20 /dev/sda7 1918772940 1953521663 34748724 82 Linu 654/23/22 1023/254/63
Partition 2 does not start on physical sector boundary. Partition 3 does not start on physical sector boundary. Partition 4 does not start on physical sector boundary. Partition 5 does not start on physical sector boundary. Partition 6 does not start on physical sector boundary. Partition 7 does not start on physical sector boundary.
I have the original data on the older HDD and I would like to get the best suggestion in order to correct this issue.
When I say "better", I mean less effort-cost and safe enough to avoid to lost data on the new HDD if possible despite I have the backup on previous disk.
AFAIK, create partitions from scratch with gparted, and rsync the files. If btrfs is involved, scratch that.
If you prefer you can send me the suggestions by private message.
Better here, so that we can argue pros and cons, plus we all learn ;-) -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from Elesar, using openSUSE Leap 15.3)