-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday, 2013-04-02 at 15:13 +0200, Per Jessen wrote:
Carlos E. R. wrote:
It clones the partition table itself, that is, the primary partition table only. The extended partition _table_ is not cloned unless you clone the entire disk.
Sorry, I missed the bit about this being about extended partitions/tables.
It took me by surprise. I had a disk going down fast, I was on a hurry to recover before total failure, I had done an image backup partition by partition (because one of them was damaged, and because of the distribution of the available space for the backup), I had dd-ed the partition table, I had a dd of the "extended" partition, too... I thought I had all I needed. And then I found out that I could not recover the stored images of the logical partitions because there were no partitions. And I could not recreate the partitions with fdisk because the original disk had been made by HP with old alignment, and fdisk wanted to do it on megabytes, skipping part of the initial region... If I allowed that, the images would simply not fit. sfdisk did the job, but I had to force it. Being an old and obsolete tool, I want to know what current tool will clone an entire partition table without questions. May have to post a new thread about that one day :-) - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. (from 12.1 x86_64 "Asparagus" at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.18 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlFa5QwACgkQtTMYHG2NR9V2JACfUSN+qA2bH0qmCTpjiFjmoRg/ P2sAnAkYGFasXtitMeZGsvmFBGGp23MV =cjkA -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org