Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2003 16:19:34 +0100
From: Andries Brouwer <aebr@win.tue.nl>
To: Szakacsits Szabolcs <szaka@sienet.hu>
Cc: Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>, Andrew Clausen <clausen@gnu.org>,
       Apurva Mehta <apurva@gmx.net>,
       Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
       bug-parted@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Disk Geometries reported incorrectly on 2.6.0-testX
Message-ID: <20031130151934.GA5763@win.tue.nl>
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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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