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parted 'fixlabel' command?
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Matt Domsch |
Subject: |
parted 'fixlabel' command? |
Date: |
Thu, 11 Dec 2003 13:55:21 -0600 |
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Mutt/1.2.5.1i |
In dealing with GPT disks, it has been suggested that one drawback is
that you cannot simply 'dd' from a disk of size X onto a disk of size
X+N because the Alternate GPT is stored "at the end of the disk".
This is true, but I think parted can fix this up if you use it to write to the
disk after you dd; set then clear a flag, write a text string label
into it, etc. The AGPT should get rewritten properly, albeit after
some warnings.
What would you think about a 'fixlabel' or 'growlabel' command,
something like that, which explicitly could handle the fact that the
disk changed, but the partition locations shouldn't?
Thanks,
Matt
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Matt Domsch
Sr. Software Engineer, Lead Engineer
Dell Linux Solutions www.dell.com/linux
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