-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Monday, 2013-04-01 at 00:09 -0400, Greg Freemyer wrote:
"Carlos E. R." <> wrote:
Still, there are some partitioning sotware that does so. I mean, it says it does. I think it is sfdisk, it even complains if partitions do not end/start at track ends and makes you force the layout to accept it (if it is not sfdisk I can find out which, I have the text saved somewhere).
Windows made the jump to 1MB alignment with Vista. Opensuse a couple years ago.
I'm sure there is software that still treats CHS geometry as meaningful, but that software is out of date.
I know, of course they are out of date. I had to clone a partition table recently. I used sfdisk, like this - I have the text saved: minas-tirith:~ # sfdisk -d /dev/sdc > partition.sfdisk minas-tirith:~ # sfdisk --no-reread /dev/sda < partition.sfdisk ... sfdisk: I don't like these partitions - nothing changed. (If you really want this, use the --force option.) minas-tirith:~ # sfdisk --no-reread --force /dev/sda < partition.sfdisk .... Warning: partition 1 does not end at a cylinder boundary Successfully wrote the new partition table Unbelievable! I had tried other tools before, but that was the only one I found that cloned the exact same partition table (including the logicals), without at the same time changing things like attempting to align the partitions differently, which was not acceptable because then the cloning of the partitions themselves would fail. The clone worked fine. It is my laptop. Do you know of a modern tool that will clone a partition table using the exact same sectors as the original? Even if it thinks that the boundaries are wrong, because the old disk was done on CHS and the new one wants to use megabytes. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. (from 12.1 x86_64 "Asparagus" at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.18 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlFaVksACgkQtTMYHG2NR9Wi+wCfWzl1byTbTQivb3J90Rz6909a yoEAnR0mu4HwmzZ3aUaaBiX3225DGqyr =3Sno -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org