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From: dick.streefland@altium.nl (Dick Streefland)
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Software RAID1 (with non-identical discs) performance
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2006 14:16:20 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3960.4587f434.9e684@altium.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 4586DF1D.6040501@cfl.rr.com

Phillip Susi <psusi@cfl.rr.com> wrote:
| The entire concept of geometry is a a carryover from days gone by. 
| These days it is just a farse maintained for backwards compatibility. 
| You can put fdisk into sector mode with the 'u' command and create 
| partitions of any number of sectors you desire, regardless of the 
| perceived geometry.

An easy way to clone a partition table is:

  sfdisk -d /dev/sdX | sfdisk /dev/sdY

-- 
Dick Streefland                      ////                      Altium BV
dick.streefland@altium.nl           (@ @)          http://www.altium.com
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  reply	other threads:[~2006-12-19 14:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-12-16 12:39 Software RAID1 (with non-identical discs) performance Wiebe Cazemier
2006-12-18 18:34 ` Phillip Susi
2006-12-19 14:16   ` Dick Streefland [this message]
2006-12-19 15:40     ` Wiebe Cazemier
2006-12-19 16:11       ` Dick Streefland
2006-12-19 12:22 ` Wiebe Cazemier
2006-12-19 14:02   ` Michael Tokarev
2006-12-19 15:43     ` Jan Engelhardt

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