partition fixing

[Peter Childs]

You could use sfdisk to dump the partition table from old disk to new
disk.   Strange that the 'old' disk partition table is ok, but the new
isn't ??    Same sized disks etc??

Cheers,
  Peter

man sfdisk

 -d     Dump the partitions of a device in a format useful as input to
sfdisk. For example,
                  % sfdisk -d /dev/hda > hda.out
                  % sfdisk /dev/hda < hda.out


On Tue, 2006-12-05 at 17:22 +1030, Ben Williams wrote:
> On 5/12/2006 5:19 PM, steve at openoz.net wrote:
> > You did boot up with a copy of Knoppix? (or your fav boot recovery disc)
> > 
> > Then you dd'd the drives?
> 
> That is entirely correct - I used Knoppix 5.0 (fresh off Internode's 
> mirror).
> 
>   - Ben
> 
> 
> -- 
> "If you made a Venn diagram [of my life], there would be two 
> non-overlapping circles, one of which was labeled, 'Times when I am 
> truly happy' and the other of which was labeled, 'Times when I am logged 
> in as root, holding a cable, or have the case open.' "
>   - Jamie Zawinski [jwz.org]