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Re: Are partition tables device independant?



Christian Hammers wrote:
> 
> Hello
> 
> Does anybody know if I can safely move a dd-dump from a whole disk to
> another including the partition table? Or is the internal representation
> using CHS information instead of just block numbers?

If you are only going to use Linux, Yes. If you are going to use some
other OS, then you will need to fix the partition table. Linux works
fine with a (slightly) broken partition table. :)

-- 
Ivan Jager



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