Carlos, On Saturday 08 October 2005 22:32, you wrote: > Agreed. I've been using sfdisk without problems with various drives. I even > usually start the first partition on sector 1... When I want to copy > the partition table of one disk to the other I do > sfdisk -d partitioned-disk | sfdisk --force new-disk. > > It works for drives of different sizes as well. Yesterday I tried > this pipe with logical partitions and even with force it refused, > complaining that an extended partition didn't start at a cylinder > boundary. That's non-sense so I just did a > > # for i in each-of-the-disks; do > sfdisk -uS /dev/sd$i << EOF > partition info > EOF > done > > and all was well. > > The concept of cylinder et. al is history now. Only the manufacturer > knows how the info is organized on the disk surface. Thanks a lot! Just tried again and this time it worked. Dunno why the system oopsed the first time. Thomas - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
