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Re: Disk Geometries reported incorrectly on 2.6.0-testX
From: |
Andries Brouwer |
Subject: |
Re: Disk Geometries reported incorrectly on 2.6.0-testX |
Date: |
Sun, 30 Nov 2003 16:19:34 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.3.25i |
On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 01:44:44PM +0200, Szakacsits Szabolcs wrote:
>
> On Sat, 29 Nov 2003, Andries Brouwer wrote:
>
> > You see, saving the logical partitions is not enough - these sectors
> > are spread out over the disk, and there used to be something else
> > where these sectors are written.
> Saving the table with sfdisk is the best but imperfect workaround. sfdisk
> can't know what steps will be done later on with a different partitioning
> tool.
>
> But at least its data should be enough to diagnose problems in the other
> partitioning tools.
You can save the data using "cfdisk -Pr". Slightly more readable versions
are given by "cfdisk -Pt", "cfdisk -Ps", "sfdisk -d", "sfdisk -x -uS -l".
- Re: Disk Geometries reported incorrectly on 2.6.0-testX, Andries Brouwer, 2003/11/28
- Re: Disk Geometries reported incorrectly on 2.6.0-testX, Andries Brouwer, 2003/11/29
- Re: Disk Geometries reported incorrectly on 2.6.0-testX, John Bradford, 2003/11/29
- Re: Disk Geometries reported incorrectly on 2.6.0-testX, Stefan Smietanowski, 2003/11/29
- Re: Disk Geometries reported incorrectly on 2.6.0-testX, Sven Luther, 2003/11/29
- Re: Disk Geometries reported incorrectly on 2.6.0-testX, Andries Brouwer, 2003/11/29
- Re: Disk Geometries reported incorrectly on 2.6.0-testX, Sven Luther, 2003/11/29
- Re: Disk Geometries reported incorrectly on 2.6.0-testX, Andries Brouwer, 2003/11/29
- Re: Disk Geometries reported incorrectly on 2.6.0-testX, Sergey Vlasov, 2003/11/30
- Re: Disk Geometries reported incorrectly on 2.6.0-testX, Andrew Clausen, 2003/11/29
- Re: Disk Geometries reported incorrectly on 2.6.0-testX, Arjan van de Ven, 2003/11/30