Carlos E. R. wrote:
Notice that the above paragraph you referenced is about particular clone practice. There are many others in which it works.
Oh...
Imaging a primary partition to a logical partition can fail because they don't have the same gaps.
---- I can see there might be problems...but wouldn't automatically assume. However, the original poster's looked like a primary->primary copy. I often see where gaps are left in front of or at end of a partition -- but they aren't inside the partition, unless you override formatting defaults and disable DOS compatibility, for example.
And imaging an MBR disk p1 to p2 (same or different disk) can fail because the gaps at the start have changed.
The partition doesn't include the gaps. I've looked at many partitions, and they always start with the FS-data.
Also sector size has changed.
---- ???! not if they are on the same disk -- and hopefully the person would know if they were copying between disks with different sector sizes ... even still most 4k sector disks emulate 512B sectors (though at a significant write penalty). Nevertheless, they should work... What would be most likely to fail would be on some Win OS which, upon seeing duplicate disk labels would likely disable one of the partitions. If they are on the same disk, it's not likely to be useful to make such a copy, if on separate disks, unplugging one brings up the other copy. Pah.... It's not standard practice, I'll admit...and if you do it, be prepared to have to do it again if it doesn't work the first time... ;-) More than a few things I try involve more than one attempt... Just have to be willing to try again if something doesn't work. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org