Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
Theophanis Kontogiannis wrote: > 3. fdisk reports > > Disk /dev/hda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes > 16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 155061 cylinders > Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes > > and the disk turns up like: > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/hda1 * 1 208 104800+ fd Linux raid autodetect > /dev/hda2 209 20554 10254384 fd Linux raid autodetect > /dev/hda3 20555 24500 1988784 83 Linux > /dev/hda4 24501 155061 65802744 83 Linux > > > The result is that I cannot create the same layout on the disk as the > old disk. > The _old disk_ was like that: > > Disk /dev/hda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/hda1 * 1 13 104391 fd Linux raid autodetect > /dev/hda2 14 1288 10241437+ fd Linux raid autodetect > /dev/hda3 1289 1543 2048287+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris > /dev/hda4 1544 9729 65754045 83 Linux afairc one can overwrite the geometry to some extend, but i do not know about the impact (e.g. performance, etc.) and in some manuals one can read about potential disk damage (never encounterred it though) i normally do an "sfdisk -d /dev/old | sfdisk /dev/new" where i replace old and new with the old and new harddisk. please research a little if this is working with your disks. of course, you will have to do it on your own risk :) cheers, raoul -- ____________________________________________________________________ DI (FH) Raoul Bhatia M.Sc. email. r.bhatia at ipax.at Technischer Leiter IPAX - Aloy Bhatia Hava OEG web. http://www.ipax.at Barawitzkagasse 10/2/2/11 email. office at ipax.at 1190 Wien tel. +43 1 3670030 FN 277995t HG Wien fax. +43 1 3670030 15 ____________________________________________________________________