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[Russell Jones <russell.jones@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Carlos E. R. wrote:
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> The Tuesday 2007-02-27 at 07:26 -0500, James Knott wrote:
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> > > Ah, right, cloning a disk, yes. But the new one would be broken as well,
> > > the partition table seems to be broken.
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> > The idea behind cloning, if possible is that you don't destroy the
> > original with your efforts to recover data.
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> I know, I do that myself. But I save images of each partition separately, 
> not the whole disk. I haven't tried, but I have my doubts that utilities 
> like "fdisk" could work on a disk image :-?
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It works if you set it up as a loopback filesystem, IIRC, i.e.
# man losetup
# losetup -f
/dev/loop0
# losetup filesystem.img /dev/loop0
# fdisk /dev/loop0
# losetup -d


Russell Jones
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