[mythtv-users] Need advice re: expand/replacement storage

[Larry Finger]

On 01/24/2013 02:22 PM, Craig Huff wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 2:10 PM, Michael T. Dean
> <mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:
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>> There are no problems with any disk (or array) size on current MythTV versions.
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>> On old versions with 32-bit compiles, there were problems with some sizes due to an overflow issue (but not 2TB or less).
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>> That said, I /still/ recommend upgrading to 0.26--the currently supported version.
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> All- Thanks for the feedback.  Always appreciated.
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> Mike-
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> Believe me, I intend to, it's just that life seems to get in the way. :-)

The one thing you need to check is that the starting sector on partition 1 is at 
a multiple of 8 in case the new drive has 4K sectors. Modern partitioning tools 
will use sector 2048 and be OK; however older versions will start at sector 63. 
That will cause slowdowns for writing as the logical sectors are misaligned.

Larry