Re: fdisk failed changing disk identifier

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On Thu, Aug 05, 2010 at 03:33:33PM +0200, Bernard Pidoux f6bvp wrote:
> Hi,
>
> After cloning a disk with dd, both are identical, particularly the disk  
> identifiers.
> I suspected this could create some problems.
> Thus I moved the disk to another system without mounting it.
> I used additional fdisk option -i to change disk identifier.
> However, the following dump shows that fdisk did not actually modify
> disk identifier.

 You didn't update any partition, but the identifier only. Right?

> What did I make wrong ?

 This is fdisk bug. It cares about modified partitions only. The
 changed identifier is invisible for the 'w' command.

 (The another bug is that it calls BLRRPART ioctl in situation when
  on disk MBR has not been altered.)

 I'll fix it ASAP. Thanks for your bug report.

    Karel

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