On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 8:08 PM, John R Pierce pierce@hogranch.com wrote:
On 4/1/2014 5:03 PM, SilverTip257 wrote:
You can "clone" the partition layout from an existing healthy disk and write it to the new disk with sfdisk.*As always, be very careful* what disk you're dumping the partition layout from and which one is the target destination.
sfdisk -d /dev/sdX | sfdisk /dev/sdY
does sfdisk support GPT disks, or is it limited to disks under 2TB ?
Good question. [ In all of the servers at my $DAY_JOB, the disks in software raid arrays are <= 2TB at the moment. ]
No. sfdisk does _NOT_ support GPT. But sgdisk [0] does. [1] [2]
* I've not tested/labbed sgdisk usage, so if anybody on the list has experience using it please speak up. :-)
[0] http://www.cyber-tec.org/2012/04/07/sfdisk-for-gpt-we-use-sgdisk/ [1] http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-gpt/ [2] http://askubuntu.com/questions/57908/how-can-i-quickly-copy-a-gpt-partition-...