Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 30 Nov 2003 09:33:50 +1100 | From | Andrew Clausen <> | Subject | Re: Disk Geometries reported incorrectly on 2.6.0-testX |
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On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 07:16:31AM +0200, Szakacsits Szabolcs wrote: > > Yes there is. "Correct" is defined by the BIOS. It is important > > for boot loaders (in particular Windows). > > I suspected the same ... What Windows you mean? DOS (9x/ME/etc) or NT based > (NT4/2000/XP/2003)? All?
Good question. From 98 up, Windows supports both LBA and CHS. I'm not sure about XP/2003. The real question is: what is the default install? How many users have each?
> Also, can Parted save/restore the full and exact partition table a > scriptable way? I mean something like this: > > sfdisk -d /dev/hda > hda.pt # save > sfdisk /dev/hda < hda.pt # restore > > sfdisk can't recover geometry so apparently no one-liner, widely available, > partition table backup/recovery is possible at present on Linux :-o > dd if=/dev/hda of=hda.mbr bs=512 count=1 won't save the logical partitions.
Parted can't do it. :/
Cheers, Andrew
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