For the record, let me add to this lonely conversation.
I tried to reproduce the problem in a simple way, by separating the
sfdisk command from the Clonezilla operation where it first appeared.
Clonezilla uses parted for information and sfdisk to configure the
partitions.
Starting with a functional Windows 10 system with three partitions I ran
some tests from the Clonezilla live distribution (parted says it is
version 3.2).
1.parted says I have an atari disk (even though it is a functional
Windows 10 system)
2.Instruct parted to create a new dos partition table
3.parted says I have an msdos disk with no partitions (as expected)
4.Run sfdisk with sda-pt.sf from the Clonezilla image as input
5.sfdisk creates three NTFS partitions on the disk (as expected)
6.parted says I have an atari disk with one partition
See the full log below. This reproduces on a bunch of PC's here (albeit,
identical ones), so my guess it that it should reproduce elsewere?
Bouke
// log
sudo parted /dev/sda print
Model: ATA WDC WD5000AAKX-6 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 500GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: atari
Disk Flags:
Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
1 8323MB 14.8GB 6446MB primary boot
sudo parted -s /dev/sda mklabel msdos
sudo parted /dev/sda print
Model: ATA WDC WD5000AAKX-6 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 500GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos
Disk Flags:
Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
sudo LC_ALL=C sfdisk --force /dev/sda
label: dos
label-id: 0x22a777ed
device: /dev/sda
unit: sectors
/dev/sda1 : start= 2048, size= 716800, type=17, bootable
/dev/sda2 : start= 718848, size= 975028224, type=7
/dev/sda3 : start= 975747072, size= 1024000, type=27
Checking that no-one is using this disk right now ... OK
Disk /dev/sda: 465.8 GiB, 500107862016 bytes, 976773168 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0xcb89b023
Old situation:
Script header accepted.
Script header accepted.
Script header accepted.
Script header accepted.
Created a new DOS disklabel with disk identifier 0x22a777ed.
/dev/sda1: Created a new partition 1 of type 'Hidden HPFS/NTFS' and of
size 350 MiB.
/dev/sda2: Created a new partition 2 of type 'HPFS/NTFS/exFAT' and of
size 465 GiB.
/dev/sda3: Created a new partition 3 of type 'Hidden NTFS WinRE' and of
size 500 MiB.
/dev/sda4: Done.
New situation:
Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type
/dev/sda1 * 2048 718847 716800 350M 17 Hidden HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 718848 975747071 975028224 465G 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda3 975747072 976771071 1024000 500M 27 Hidden NTFS WinRE
The partition table has been altered.
Calling ioctl() to re-read partition table.
Syncing disks.
sudo parted /dev/sda print
Model: ATA WDC WD5000AAKX-6 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 500GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: atari
Disk Flags:
Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
1 8323MB 14.8GB 6446MB primary boot
// end
