Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 30 Nov 2003 16:19:34 +0100 | From | Andries Brouwer <> | Subject | Re: Disk Geometries reported incorrectly on 2.6.0-testX |
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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".
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