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SubjectRe: Disk Geometries reported incorrectly on 2.6.0-testX
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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