On Thu, 08 Mar 2012 16:30:56 +0100, Jim Meyering <j...@meyering.net> wrote: >You want to preserve contents of /dev/sda2? >What were you trying to change? Just the starting sector of sda1?
I needed to recreate /dev/sda1 exactly as it was before, as unlike Linux, Windows7 doesn't seem to like it when we restore an image into a partition that's bigger than the original. >You can recreate the partitions just as they were before you >ran parted...mklabel, assuming you know their starting and >ending sector numbers. Thanks for the pointer.