On Tuesday 19 December 2006 15:16, Dick Streefland wrote: > An easy way to clone a partition table is: > > sfdisk -d /dev/sdX | sfdisk /dev/sdY >
And with one Maxtor 250 GB and one Seagate 250 GB, will that work? It can go wrong on two accounts; the geometry issue I desbribed (which, I understand, shouldn't be an issue at all), and if you're trying to clone the partition table on a smaller disk. The latter would be fixed by leaving some unpartioned space available. This is something I'm going to experiment with on several disks I have. On a sidenote, can you use this command, along with "dd if=oldpartition of=newpartition" to clone an old disk to a new one (including NTFS/FAT partitions for example), like Seagate disk wizzard does, and have a working bootable system on the new disk? Or, can that even be done by dd-ing the entire disk, and not individual partitions? I can remember G4u being uncomfortable with that. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
