Stupid fdisk question

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Timz · Post by **Timz** » Wed Jun 25, 2008 2:18 pm

Hi,

I have a very stupid question about fdisk, i need 2 partitions of the same size on 2 different servers.
Servers has one disk 20Go on one and 160go on the other.

With fdisk i can't get exactly the same partition size i tried with sfdisk but with no succes ...
I need thoes 2 partitions for DRBD.

thanks in advance

frostschutz · Post by **frostschutz** » Wed Jun 25, 2008 2:27 pm

So, uh, what's the problem? Partition sizes are determined by drive geometry (for oldschool partitions anyway, it's different for example for LVM logical volumes), so it's perfectly possible that you are not able to get the same granularity (and thus same sizes) on two different disks. Why do you need them to be of the same size?

kimmie · Post by **kimmie** » Wed Jun 25, 2008 3:35 pm

Have you tried cfdisk? It lets you specify in units of sectors, so you should be able to force the same size.

Timz · Post by **Timz** » Wed Jun 25, 2008 3:43 pm

no i didn't try cfdisk but i don't think this will solve my problem.

@frostschutz: it's to use DRBD (raid1 over network)

thanks for your response i'll try with 2 close size partition to see if it works