On 2013-04-02 05:53 (GMT+0200) Carlos E. R. composed:
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.
The one I use permits every kind of alignment I've ever encountered, but it isn't FOSS. http://fm.no-ip.com/Tmp/Dfsee/dfslX-vizio.txt starts with output from its standard startup log. To it I've appended fdisk -l and hdparm -i output for comparison. It shows 1.5T and 2.0T devices that use 512 byte internal sectors. 1.5T uses legacy 255/63 geo while the 2T uses 64/32 "advanced format" 4k sector alignment. Both were partitioned 100% using DFSee, which comes with functionally equivalent binaries for DOS, OS/2, Win32, x86 Linux and Intel Mac. You might notice fdisk reports table out of order on sdb. That's on purpose. The STB it's normally used with can only recognize a partition defined by a first partition table entry. I partitioned and formatted and used it before I knew that fact, so since the NTFS needed to be "first", I used DFSee to swap the table entries. DFSee is one of my backup tools. I do a lot of partition and disk cloning with it, but it also creates compressed and uncompressed partition and disk images as desired. -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org