On 2018-06-16 07:07, L A Walsh wrote:
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.
The original post was back in April, I don't know why the thread has resurrected now, there is no new data. The copy was done by someone else and Lew did not have factual data.
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.
AFAIK they affect to the size of the partition, how many sectors are available.
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...
No, Lew did not know what had actually been done :-) Greg was commenting on possibilities. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 42.3 x86_64 "Malachite" at Telcontar)